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...Curtain Lifter. Movieman Eric Johnston got Hollywood's foot under the Iron Curtain. He made a deal with Russia, where almost no U.S. films are shown, to let in up to 20 films a year, pay for them with dollars in New York. Johnston hoped to close a similar deal with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
...Goods. In Portland, Ore.,.Policewoman Florence Findley released a suspected shop lifter for lack of evidence, discovered that her wallet and badge had been stolen...
...Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated (see cut) ads. It also drew a shocked cry of "bad taste" from Advertising Age and protests from the New Yorker, LIFE, and other magazines which refused to run other Springmaid copy until such phrases as "ham hamper, lung lifter" and "rumba aroma" were deleted. Not in months had advertising tittups caused such a tizzy...
...singers, many of them housewives, can read music. They sing with none of the trickiness and polish of professional Negro groups like the Hall Johnson Choir. Sure-fire "lifter" at St. Paul is Hines's setting of the Lord's Prayer. The choir chants the first line in unison, adding more harmony with each new line. The screaming climax leaves the church shuddering. Says Hines: "We don't sing to entertain. We sing to lift...
...Face Lifter. Extremely shy, Mrs. Dodge had no liking for publicity. One of the few times her name appeared in print was in 1926, when she spent $50,000 backing a French flyer and famed War I ace, Captain René Fonck, in a transatlantic flight that never came off. Another was in 1930, when she paid a record-high fine of $213,286 for failing to declare the full value of trunksful of clothes and jewelry that she brought home from France. She was still largely unknown when in 1938 a U.S. Treasury report showed...