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...last week, pretty Actress Rita Hayworth, whose face and figure are her fortune, and the opulent Aly Khan, who has less visible means of support, passed through Manhattan bound for Britain, Switzerland and, possibly, marriage. Readers of the tabloid New York Daily News choked on their gum when they read that Miss Hayworth looked "as pale and haggard as though she had walked all the way from Hollywood [to meet her] gold-plated boy friend from mystic India." She scurried aboard the liner Britannic, the Daily News went on, over a gangplank "ordinarily used, dock workers said, to take bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: So You Won't Talk? | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...gum up coach Elmer Lampe's fast-break offense tonight, Bill Barclay is counting on Harvard control of the backboards. "That's one of the reasons why we're starting Prior," he pointed out yesterday. "Bill looked good clearing the boards against Navy and maybe he can get us started on the right foot against Dartmouth." Barclay added that the Crimson wasn't in the right frame of mind Saturday at Annapolis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team Faces Indians | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...hardwaremen were hearing aright, all right. Ever since he was named to FTC in 1945, gum-chewing, wisecracking Lowell Mason has been giving the other four FTC members a running hotfoot. He has usually dissented from their decisions, has continually talked and written against the whole method of FTC law enforcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Dissenter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Incentive. Gum King Philip K. Wrigley, tired of losing money on his Santa Catalina Island resort (it has showed a profit only twice in 29 years and is losing $750,000 this year), began to lease a Catalina hotel and some bungalows to employees. Said Wrigley: "A manager with a lease . . . will work a little harder . . . and doesn't need as many assistants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Northwestern's jitters followed them on to the playing field. They fumbled three times. The first fumble cost them, a safety. Minnesota turned the other two into touchdowns. That brought the score to 16-0. Northwestern's coach Bob Voigts chewed gum a mile a minute on the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Nine's Big Wheels | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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