Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legend says that when P. T. Barnum, James Gordon Bennett, Edwin Booth or Colonel Joe ("Gin") Rickey began to brim over at the Hoffman, Bouguereau's girls came to life. In 1934 a smaller Nymphs and Satyr appeared in Trenton, N.J.'s Stacy-Trent Hotel, where novices are told that on the stroke of midnight the picture turns around, reveals the nymphs to better advantage. Robert R. Meyer, owner of the smaller painting, thinks that Bouguereau may have painted a second, but has not proved...
...Joseph M. Gordon, fluorescent and luminescent products consultant of New York, has made the use of black light for night flying,† now usually confined to instrument-panel illumination, easily practical for all members of a bomber's crew...
...Gordon's unit consists of plastic envelopes of assorted sizes and a lightweight portable black light lamp which can be placed on the navigator's table or worn like a miner's lamp. The envelopes are made of orange-red fluorescent-treated transparent plastic. The lamp may be the four-watt, 24-28-volt black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation...
American film audiences should feel obliged to nominate Leon Gordon's resurrection of "White Cargo" in movie form as one of the year's foremost blunders. Although a well-handled advertising campaign may give this production large box office receipts, it can do little to repair the damage done to the acting prestige of Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, and Hedy Lamarr. These three are the victims of a plot and setting as hackneyed as any the film industry has seen...
...Doughgirls (by Joseph Fields; produced by Max Gordon) tosses three man-eating women (Virginia Field, Doris Nolan, Arleen Whelan) into the wartime bedlam of Washington. The three migratory workers soon show Washington what bedlam really can be. Inside one hotel suite they virtually solve the capital's housing problem. Inside a few weeks they virtually supersede the War Manpower Commission. Broad, breezy, gagged to the gullet by Playwright Fields, The Doughgirls is nice, unfastidious...