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...rival for the nomination, Senator Vandenberg. Last week he put in some long hours with Joe Martin, Minority Leader of the House. Joe Martin agrees with Minority Leader McNary of the Senate that unless the Republicans feel in 1940 that they can win with anybody, Tom Dewey is the glamor boy they will pick. Vandenberg, Dewey and Taft all appeared beaming at a dinner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (see cut). Dewey and Taft both spoke (off the record) and of the two, suave Tom Dewey went over best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Marching Jumbo | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Glamor Guys. The younger school of illustrators is, in technique, distinguished for lucid wash drawing, "suggestion" and glamor. Its pioneer artist is Italian-born John La Gatta, 45, a mustachioed believer in the tall brunette and one of the few big-money illustrators who providentially salted his earnings away in real property (on Long Island Sound, with a yacht) before 1929. La Gatta's specialty is swooningly sleek backs. The sex appeal which is La Gatta's stock-in-trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Illustrators | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan Glamor Girl Martha Stephenson, newly wed to Bandleader Hal Kemp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Ginger Rogers has glamor, acting ability and a pair of lyric legs. But her outstanding quality as a movie star is a frank and homegrown air which both U. S. and foreign audiences recognize as essentially American. In spite of her two marriages (moderate for Hollywood) she represents the American Girl, 1939 model-alert, friendly, energetic, elusive. Less eccentric than Carole Lombard, less worldly-wise than Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Nassau, the Bahamas, Glamor-Debutante Brenda Diana Duff Frazier met and partied with Glamor-Flier Howard Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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