Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Director William (The Best Years of Our Lives) Wyler ($432,000) and Bing Crosby ($325,000). Betty ("Legs") Grable, with a tidy $299,300, was the top moneymaker among U.S. women (trumpeting husband Harry James did $100,036 worth of breadwinning in the movies alone). Automaker Charles E. Wilson (General Motors) made $337,193, and the late super-Huckster George Washington Hill (American Tobacco...
Egypt's King Farouk, who loves flashy cars (he owns a flock of red & black limousines), planned to add a utilitarian touch to his collection: he ordered twelve red jeeps, four for general work around the palace grounds, eight equipped with chrome bumpers, red leather seats, white metal wheels and fire sirens, to escort his personal...
After the program, Mlle. Mala stated a few general rules for television makeup. Men should first shave, then apply a foundation cream tinted to suit the complexion. Eye shadow and eyelash cream are also important. Mlle. Mala thinks it is too bad that most men shy away from makeup. Women need a dark foundation to disguise "blotches and blemishes," plenty of shadow for double chins, two different shades of brown powder on the cheekbones, non-running mascara on the eyelids, a touch of eyebrow pencil. Lipstick depends on lighting: Mlle. Mala wore blue on her first TV appearance, last week...
...Disney! The Superior General of the missionary Paulist Fathers, the Very Rev. James F. Cunningham, writes of the Paulist "trailer missions" which since 1939 have been touring out-of-the-way parts of the U.S. some of which have never seen a Catholic before. Last summer the Paulists operated six trailer chapels through Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri and Utah showing movies, preaching sermons, answering questions. Motion pictures are powerful aids in dramatizing religion, and the Catholics use them widely, but there is a shortage of good up-to-date material. One priest is quoted as exclaiming wistfully: "Oh, what...
Samples of FRB's carefully gathered evidence: Transamerica controls about 80% of all deposits in Nevada, 39% in Oregon, 42% in California, including 100% in 13 counties. The complaint was based on more than a general charge of the Brandeisian sense of bigness. According to the complaints of scores of bought-out banks, Giannini played unfair ball by hiring away their top officers and paying fantastic prices to their stockholders...