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Jack Dawn, M.G.M.'s greying, clever make-up chief, has made false hair for balding stars, false breasts for slim seductresses. He has made a youthful character actor into Abraham Lincoln, and 200 Caucasians into Chinese peasants. About three months ago, he made a suggestion to the San Diego Naval Hospital: that he would like to help out fighting men whose faces and hands had been disfigured...
With the first organizational work completed, the officers in charge of the Navy V-12 plan have released additional information concerning the make-up of the Unit in its present form, and the outlook for the Apprentice Seamen now residing in Kirkland and Eliot Houses...
...large, moon-faced Virginian, 56 years old. Unschooled (sixth grade), he learned about printing by working for a printer in Scranton, got a working knowledge of make-up in a Connecticut advertising agency. He even studied at a Better Vision Institute. After writing for printing trade publications, he got a job at New York University teaching typography on a commission basis (his pay: one-third of the tuition his students paid). In ten years Farrar upped enrollment from...
...printing schedule will go into effect on July 1, when the Army and Navy Specialized Training Programs start, and will continue until the Harvard population regains its pre-Pearl Harbor make...
Under Dimmy the Inquirer rapidly became a bright, aggressive paper. Dimmy changed type faces and make-up and used more pictures; he campaigned for such things as free school lunches and against such things as the public sale of fireworks. So well did Dimmy succeed that an appreciative Moe Annenberg presented him with a $1,000 platinum Swiss watch so fancy and begadgeted that, said office legend, a little man popped out of it on the hour to announce race results at Hialeah...