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...realize it but you are laying it on a bit thick for Glamor Boy Willkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 23, 1940 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...small part of Chip's success is due to Evie Robert, his second wife, a stun ning blonde, tall, blue-eyed and smart. She loves parties, horses and publicity. After their marriage in 1935 they became the glamor boy & girl of the New Deal. Chip became secretary of the Democratic National Committee, a job which pays no salary, involves no duties. But there were some people in Washington who thought that even this phantom post might be useful to Chip Robert. One day last week a fellow Georgian, Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, read into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ax for Chip? | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...week last fall, many a U. S. armchair general, vicariously glorying in the dash and glamor of Stuart, Forrest and Sheridan, thought he saw cavalry go down forever with the evening sun. That first week in September the famed Polish cavalry threw itself into the path of the German mechanized columns, and was swept out of the way like rubbish. But hard-boiled military men, especially the Germans, knew that cavalry was still a long way from being scrap-heaped. The Poles' mistake had been to use cavalry as striking forces rather than as screens and feelers. The Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Horses on Wheels | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

More reservedly enthusiastic were the sun-&-fun-loving income-tax-avoiding members of Nassau's Anglo-American cafe society. As spokesman of the colony's inner circle, Jane, Lady Williams-Taylor, grandmother of onetime Glamor Girl No. 1, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, decided the Duchess "will be received," primly explained that "she is the wife of the king's representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Playground Superintendents | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Although Bartlett is the glamor boy of the Missus shows, he had nothing to do with their confection. They were thought up in 1934 by Thomas Kivlan, then star salesman for WBBM, now an advertising executive. Tommie Bartlett was just an announcer when he was tapped to take over his gruelling assignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Meet the Missus | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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