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...sold as low as 5? a pint. Of 3,257,096 gallons consumed in the U. S. last year, Government officials refused to estimate how much was taken internally, but estimates by States run from 10% to 75%. Technically therapeutic, rubbing alcohol is exempt from the $4.25-per-gal. Federal alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Rub- | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Goof, a cowlicky, touching little dandelion seed of a man whom Saroyan characterized as "the naive white hope of the human race," wanted to change the world. He was thwarted wherever he went by an Easter-Parade cutaway-dummy representing conformity, and a deadpan gal named Destiny. He tried to change the world with love (represented by Minsky models in black lace panties), poetry, music, facts and statistics, common labor. He pleaded with all sorts-a dope-fiend radical, a religious drunkard, a doting old man with a beard and a penchant for poetry, followed by a girl representing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Saroyan's Love | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

This one is about David Niven as a magician whose hand is ever so much quicker than Broderick Crawford's eye. Result: he gets the gal, Loretta Young in this case. The old chestnut about the society girl running off with an entertainer is once again with us, but aside from a few emotional lapses, the picture is good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Among the Glamor Guys should be prolific Floyd Davis, Jon Whitcomb, Walter Klett, Gilbert Bundy, The New Yorker's Galbraith, and the Glamor Gal Ritchie (Barbara) Cooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...sponsors. For many of these spots B-S-H's great, straight-line script mill turned out at mass production prices Just Plain Bill, Second Husband, John's Other Wife, Romance of Helen Trent, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Lorenzo Jones, Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Young Widder Brown, Stella Dallas, Alias Jimmy Valentine, David Harum. All these were ghostwritten by some 14 anonymous authors in the names of Adman Frank Hummert and his wife, Anne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hummerts' Mill | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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