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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search went on, so many models and photographers sang Lisa's praises that her selection was a foregone conclusion. To research the story, Miss Fremd spent long hours with Lisa. She ate lunches and dinners with her (and teased Lisa because she always ordered smoked ham), rode around in her red convertible while appreciative pedestrians whistled, went swimming on a lonely Long Island beach, and even persuaded Lisa to burlesque some of her high-fashion poses (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Giant Mechanism. The Cabinet meeting, which got the news from President Truman just before it was handed to the newsmen, broke up after an hour-long discussion. In the Capitol, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon sat down with his Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and AEC officials behind drawn shades. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg was asked what he thought of the news. "It's the kind of thing you can't think about on a straight line until you've put it aside for 48 hours," he replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Thunderclap | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...town's traffic problem was slowly being untangled. Two weeks ago Governor Jim Duff presided over the dynamiting-through of a ¾-mile-long tunnel under Squirrel Hill, part of a highway which will carry traffic from the Pennsylvania Turnpike through the city and across the Monongahela towards the west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Mellon's Patch | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

This week he stood up in Denver's federal court to face the charges-four indictments for perjury, two for evasion of income tax-which had piled up during his long absence. His attorneys obviously expected an easy out. But Judge Orie L. Phillips insisted that he enter a plea of guilty to the income tax charges, took the perjury counts under advisement, and deferred judgment. Blackmer walked out slowly, lips pursed, black shoes squeaking and was driven away to his son's fashionable Cherry Hills mansion to nurse his hope of forgiveness a little longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Darling of the Gods | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...bread-and-butter" objections--desire for wage increases to meet the rising domestic prices consequent with devaluation. So far Sir Stafford Cripps' 20 percent increase in profits taxes does no more than place an unreasonable burden on an already belabored people. The course of future British policy, in the long run, will be determined not in Parliament but in the coal mines, the factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pounds and Politics | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

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