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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MAURY M. TRAVIS Denver, Colo...
...hope will interest them." His sponsor, Lee Hats, decided on Montgomery (reportedly at $5,000 per week) when Lee ended its 3½-year tie-up with Gossipist Drew Pearson. Asked his opinion of his predecessor, Montgomery replied with a brisk "No comment." But he admitted that "I'm not going to use a crystal ball on this program...
...always the dress, it is never, never the girl." As one satisfied customer put it: "A lot of models will not move a muscle for a cheap dress. Lisa makes a $10 cotton dress look like a Schiaparelli." Mockingly, Lisa Fonssagrives puts it another way: "I'm just a good clothes hanger...
Philadelphia's bald, moonfaced Albert M. Greenfield, a real-estate man who became a banker, slid into the department-store business in the depression '30s. With the once prosperous City Stores Co. verging on bankruptcy, Banker Greenfield moved in to protect an $8 million loan, reorganized the company with himself as boss. Under him, City Stores mushroomed from five stores to 22, its gross from $33 million to last year's record $168 million. Profits also hit a record...
That Midnight Kiss (M-G-M). Producer Joe ("No one's going to get sick or die in my movies") Pasternak is an expert at turning out box-office musicals (Three Daring Daughters, In the Good Old Summertime). His favorite theme is the American dream that the tot on the living-room floor may one day turn out to be another Schnabel or Flagstad. In this case, the American living room is the usual Pasternak plush job, heavily furnished with grand pianos, helpful celebrities and enthusiastic prodigies...