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...Ginger Rogers was fashionable Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski's idea of the ideal model for a statue of the typical woman defense worker. He put her into plaster, standing on a pile of gears with a baby in one arm, a monkey wrench in the other. In her next movie, Lovet-Lorski's typical woman defense worker plays a typical woman defense worker...
...Motors time clock. As it switched over from peace to war production, General Motors switched from old to new methods of talking to its workers. Instead of reviewing their role in the war effort, it revues it. It's Only the Beginning (produced by Soundmasters, Inc.) is a ginger-coated pep talk that points a moral with newsreel excerpts, talks shop in swing time, says "Thanks, boys" with dimpled knees like Peggy Moro...
...Barretts of Wimpole Street have enamel bathtubs? Did Dr. Johnson ever use a flush toilet or have any idea of a sanitary latrine? Did Charles Dickens ever hear a radio? Did Goethe ever handle a camera? . . . Did Charles Lamb ever see Ginger Rogers or use a plastic toothbrush? Did Wordsworth ever cross in the Hudson Tunnel or drive on the Merritt Parkway? . . . Why must we be the mirror to the universe? Where are the standards? The invalid assumptions must fall away, and some common standard for all humanity must be rediscovered...
...less pinching was his free-lance career for picture magazines, chiefly LIFE. Gaudiest assignment: color portraits of Hollywood stars. Preferred work: graphic reports in black & white on social subjects such as Pennsylvania miners. He is so photogenic himself that Ginger Rogers once suggested that he be screen-tested...
Characters. Of all Gubbins characters, Sally the Cat is perhaps best-liked. She is Winston Churchill's favorite. Currently she is being urged by Gubbins to marry The Ginger Cat of London's Maida Vale, a real animal who recently actually inherited ?4,000. Says Sally: "I will never marry for anything but love." Jeers Gubbins: "You've never married anybody at all yet, although you're the mother of 109 kittens." Other Gubbins creations...