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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Senate Sweepstakes | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Glamor Pusses | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Glamor Pusses | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Made in Heaven | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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