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...Quiet, jug-eared Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt surveyed the dismal prospects and the crying need. Then, in a breathtaking announcement that sounded like the start of the greatest domestic crusade since NRA, he asked the nation to build more houses in the next 22 months than it had put up in the last six years-an unbelievable total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Calling All Carpenters | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress Garson, frequently cast in heavy-heroine or merely mealy parts, carries off her role with sparkle. But the steady gleam of the picture is the inimitable, jug-eared, perdurable Clark Gable, 45, back from the wars and still going strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Married. Myrna Loy, 40, redheaded, pretty but jug-eared "perfect screen wife"; and Commodore (on terminal leave) Gene Markey, 50, cinema scenarist and producer, wartime member of Admiral William F. Halsey's staff; both for the third time; on Terminal Island, Calif. At ceremony's end, Gene pecked Myrna's cheek, she pecked Best Man Halsey's. Said the Markeys: "This time it will stick." Her former husbands: Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., Advertising Executive John D. Hertz Jr. His former wives: Cinemactresses Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...administer the new policy, to try to get a half million new dwellings built by the end of 1946, the President picked Louisville's lanky, jug-eared ex-Mayor Wilson Wyatt as federal housing boss. It was immediately apparent that Wilson Wyatt was going to have trouble. Real-estate boards and construction men all over the country forthwith set up an outraged howl over the President's request for ceilings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: 180° Turn | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...less room than a woman and sounds a hell of a lot better") to suave -Lord Kelvinston, who subsidizes the ballet and reeks of "inbred irony." You and I has amusing moments and non-stop action, but somehow it seems just to have been poured out of a big jug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Fiction, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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