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...said: "We don't want any victories or any rights. All we want to do is live." Western Union transmitted it as "love," and TIME printed it that way. At a later press conference Petrillo leveled a finger at Miss Steinert and hollered: "There's that gal from TIME magazine that said all I wanta do is love!" Miss Steinert advised him that the misquotation wouldn't have occurred if Western Union hadn't been on strike. He beamed, agreed, and observed: "That's right. These damn unions are gonna ruin the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...sweet, sandpapered tone left for the ballads. And Kay, who was born on an Oklahoma Indian reservation (she is a mixture of Irish, Iroquois, Cherokee and Choctaw), was beginning to look like a girl the U.S. would soon be hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold more than 100,000 copies in three months. And Capitol Records, which seems to know when it has something (it also has such top girl singers as Jo Stafford, Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee), had recorded 24 songs by Kay before the Petrillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising Starr | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Nearly every gal on the floor had a date. Everyone was driving down-with Harvard men, of course. I almost died listening to them bubble about their plans. Sue was cutting classes and going down Friday morning cause hr man captains the Eliot House football team...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: So You're Off to New Haven, eh... | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...gal who gets a man will have a pair of tickets to Simmon's first all-college formal thrown in with her prize. Any money collected will go to the current drive for funds to enlarge the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Man's Body Goes Up On Auction Block Tonight at Simmons | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

...smartest gal to wear a thimble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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