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...Broadway. She had had a shot at Hollywood. Before that she had been a college girl back in Stillwater, Okla. She was good-looking, the pouty kind with heavy, half-open red lips and a little girl's big, wide eyes and a kind of Hedy Lamarr hairdo. Two of her teeth had been knocked out in an automobile accident, but she was good enough to be a model for a while and even a peep-show dancer at the World's Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Guy's Lady | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Kamins had wired the CRIMSON to bear the torch in behalf of his protegee, the petite cinema siren, whose optic-concealing hairdo has caused more barbers to close shop than the virtuosity of the celebrated gentleman of Seville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Bored, Laughs Off Tufts Challenge | 1/28/1942 | See Source »

Eight official A.W.V.S. uniforms included breeches and boots for the cycle corps, ski-troop suits for workers in the far North (couriers, spotters, dogsled teamsters in Saranac, N.Y., Alaska, etc.). For A.W.V.S. fingernails, light polish was prescribed; hairdo: simple, preferably short, up off the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: The Ladies! | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Gloria Vanderbilt, of the up-again-down-again hairdo, did a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't turn as a magician's volunteer helper in a Manhattan nightclub before she left for California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Beauty, Health, Style | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...cheeked, Catholic, the daughter of a musician who deserted his family for a chorus girl. Mary has a part-time NYA job, goes to evening college, not because she likes to study but because she believes it gives her prestige. She also shows her insecurity by constantly changing her hairdo. Mary likes to dance, mortally hates & fears being kissed by boys (a transfer of resentment against her father). Eventually, assured by her interviewer that there was no harm in kissing, Mary learned to like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Betty, Paul, Mary, Joe | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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