Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington. Republican Harry P. Cain, former mayor of Tacoma, threw a scare into Democrats by his aggressive speeches. So the Democrats threw Senator Warren Magnuson, their glamor boy and best vote-getter, into the campaign for Senator Hugh B. Mitchell. To raise Cain's chances, the G.O.P. then opened up its big guns on the liberal side: Harold Stassen and Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse. Outlook: very close...
ICCASP had proved its ability to pull crowds into huge New York and Los Angeles rallies, to lure money-heavy political angels into glittering banquet rooms. A bright, diminutive 35-year-old ex-newspaperwoman named Hannah Dorner, who affectionately calls ICCASP members "glamor pusses," handled most of its promotion stunts with a hardheaded competency in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, overlooking Broadway. Nevertheless, the committee could still be expected to cut didoes...
With the help of its more professional members, ICCASP has also learned to avoid some of the minor blunders of politicking. Explained a Hollywood member: "Ingrid Bergman would never be sent off to a small neighborhood meeting because it would cheapen her glamor value. Groucho Marx wouldn't attempt to talk to a ladies' society, but would leave it to Sterling Hayden or John Garfield...
...next question was loaded: "Is a TIME editor or writer, in general or in particular, your idea of what a man should be?" The replies to that one (the questionnaires were unsigned) rang the gong from "Certainly not!" to "Yes!" Some found our editors & writers "too blase," lacking "glamor" and "physical charm," inclined to be "walking brains, not people." Others thought them "very nice people," "what I expect a competent editor or writer of this category to be," "superior personalities and a few really engaging minds." One researcher, however, felt that only the editors' & writers' wives could truly...
Zita Miller, Park Avenue Glamor girl loudly touted as an authoress before she began writing her first book-something sexy about a girl named Flamingo Duval (TIME, April 1)-nearly had to start her career all over again at the age of 19. She 1) finished the book, 2) lost 16 chapters of the manuscript. They turned up a few days later in one of the very best restaurants...