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Unlike his predecessor, glib, huckster-handed William Benton, George Allen* is quiet and undramatic. But he is no softie. In Iran, he not only acquired a thorough, first-hand knowledge of U.S.S.R. pressure techniques, but demonstrated firmness in dealing with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quiet Man | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Huckster Nietzsche. The 19th Century's Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made the grade in 20th Century advertising. In the New York Times, John Ward shoe stores led off an ad for a "neither staid nor stuffy" shoe with the Nietzschean quote: "I am not successful at being pompous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Arline, 35, has been married five times, including one three-year stretch with Bob Topping's older brother Dan (who has been married four times). Arline's other husbands: Cinema Director Wesley Ruggles, R.A.F. Captain James R. Addams* and Huckster Vincent Morgan Ryan, to whom she was still married when she met Bob in Hollywood and fell "plain mad nutsie in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Musical Chairs | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...common objection was voiced against neckties. "Something happens to women when they go looking for them; they can see nothing but blood-and-thunder patterns," growled one victim 'who was outfitted like a huckster last December 25. Minority factions declared themselves against magazine subscription, searves, and most jewelry...

Author: By Joan Mopartlin, | Title: Importance of Other Sex Clouds Yuletide Spirit | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...show deals with a minor sort of intrigue surrounding a ball-team in the 1890's before and after the sale of a magic elixir by a well-meaning huckster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pudding Show Opens Tonight | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

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