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...Glamor in Tweed. The tournament glamor girl was Cuban-born Carola Mandel, 31, wife of wealthy Chicago Department Store Owner Leon Mandel. A skeet shooter for only three years, steady-nerved Mrs. Mandel is already right up in the big time, last month won the Open High-Over-All title at Chicago, outshooting some veteran male marksmen to do it. In Dallas, wearing her regular plaid shirt & tweed skirt, despite the heat, she won the 20-gauge (100 out of 100) and small gauge (98 out of 100) competitions, for a split of the major women's titles with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Bang in Dallas | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...Murray relies on a single, tried & true formula. "In contrast to the changing orientations of most variety shows, the major theme of the show is [sex]. Emphasis is placed on the glamor of the girls, Ken Murray makes cracks with sexy overtones . . . The audience has no strongly formed loyalty to him as a personality-in contrast to Sid Caesar, Jimmy Durante, and some others-but likes him as a relaxed and amusing guy . . . The sexual-musical combination is appealing, perhaps especially so on Saturday night, the universal 'dating' time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Tastes in Television | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...lower level, September Affair has been turned out with as much skill as Brief Encounter. The plot meshes smoothly, the dialogue is suavely written and spoken, the score puts Kurt Weill's lovely September Song to good sentimental use, and a soft haze of glamor rises from lavish interiors and antiseptically romantic Italian vistas. The effect is as shimmeringly pretty as a soap bubble, and just as hollow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Victoria Kelly was learning to look her five-year-old best for photographers, with the expert coaching of her mother, Lens Veteran Brenda Frazier Kelly, 29, glamor queen of cafe society a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Women at Work | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Amid this shattering burst of shot & shell the question disintegrated. But as the feathers gently drifted down, so did the glamor of Harry Truman's trip to Wake Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Question Period | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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