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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lights Out (Wed. 10:30 p.m., ABC). Boris Karloff starts a chilly summer series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Rosey example of how they might be done: "AMALGAMATED GOULASH-The Stock That Has Everything! Coming Soon to the Bijou (formerly E. F. Hutton, Inc.) Romance! Mystery! Dividends! Starring Mortimer Schnook, Our Vice President Who Thrilled You in 'Passion on the Curb.' Meaner Than Mason. Creepier Than Karloff. Doors Open 10:00 a.m. $13 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: A Lot of Malarkey | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst of the lot (see cut), awarded her creator, Basil Wolverton, a Vancouver, Wash, comic-book artist, a $500 prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The (Sob!) Ugliest | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Married. Boris Karloff (real name: William Henry Pratt), 58, gaunt cinema bogeyman; and Evelyn Helmore, 42; both for the second time; in Boulder City, Nev., the day after Karloff was granted a divorce from his first wife, Dorothy Stine Pratt, who he said was cruel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Hess. "Vic Oliver [Churchill's son-in-law] made up as Boris Karloff and painted the color of a corpse. . . . Down to skin and bone, going bald, wild eyes set in deep-sunken cavities, he has a nervous twitch and jerky movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Cartoon In Words | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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