Word: glamor
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...remember him best for his "lion's face," his broad and rocky mouth. Like all successful Red Army commanders, he is a professing Communist and (unlike some) he is also a devout one. Said he after the Finnish War: "We would not be Bolsheviks if we allowed the glamor of victory to blind us to the shortcomings that have been revealed in the training of our men. These shortcomings were the result of conventionalism and routine...
Bossed. Boss of all this size, wealth and glamor, as top man of West Coast boilermakers, is squarejawed, hotheaded Thomas John Crowe, 47, IBBMISBWHA's Pacific Coast international representative. He started as an apprentice at 13, earning 10? an hour heating rivets at Parsons, Kans., and has climbed the union ladder rung by rung. Belligerent, tough, willing to crack heads if necessary to get what he wants, Tom Crowe has the reputation of a square shooter. West Coast management knows him as a man who will keep his word, once given. When welders tried to break away from IBBMISBWHA...
Some old peacetime jobs for women-telephone operators, elevator operators-provided more openings than ever before. Others-stenographers, schoolteachers, movie starlets-are hard put to compete with the high pay and patriotic glamor of war jobs. The first conductorettes on Los Angeles streetcars looked as though they had come right out of a nightclub chorus line. There is hardly any job-truck driver, mechanic, cobbler, oyster shucker, engineer, bartender, butcher, baker or candlestick maker-that women cannot get if they want them and more & more women are getting them...
Dinah, wary of celebrity hunters, declares: "They'll never turn me into a glamor girl." She prefers the armed forces, likes to pass the soldiers' hangout near the Vine Street Brown Derby, greeting soldiers (especially privates) with: "Hi ya, soldier! My name's Dinah. What's yours?" "Once I get them and they get me," she says, "we have a wonderful time." She has stopped her car to sing her head off to a one-man sentry in the desert...
George Sanders divides cinemactors into three classes: "business, ham or glamor." His typical ham is "my friend Larry Olivier. He is sincere and has a conviction that what he is doing has great importance." Typical glamor actress is Norma Shearer ("glamor attracts the star who no longer needs the money but doesn't want to retire just yet"). Typical businessman: George Sanders, who drifted into films for the fat pay checks, may just as coolly drift out of them again...