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For his best paid and most featured new girls, Smart signed on a pair of Hollywood studio draftsmen named Joseph De Mers and Fritz Willis, who work mostly as a team, passing the drawing board back and forth. Says De Mers: "I paint a while and he paints a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 17 Men & a Girl | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Esquire's foot-in-mouth pressagent Russell Birdwell immediately started lighting up the red fire for the De Mers-Willis girl ("Her glance is as predatory as some wild thing, her movements as lithe and bodily outspoken as those of some jungle creature."). Apparently no one had passed him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 17 Men & a Girl | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Kruger was a shrewd horse trader and a grasping man. But diamond-studded Kimberley and gold-booming Johannesburg (which lay in his own territory) horrified him. These mushroom cities swarmed with the world's adventurers, who swam in alcohol and commonly bid up to $100 (plus three cases of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Black, A Briton, A Boer | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

The gold was there in the heavy-headed grain that was ripening across the whole west half of Kansas. Now it all hung on the weather. Each night the Kansas far mers and their wives went off to bed only after a last worried look at the sky; each morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Waiting on the Sky | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

For years the biggest U. S. summer school has been Columbia's, where thousands of schoolteachers become students again for a six-week term. Last week, as usual, a swarm of teachers, mostly women from small-town schools, made a bee-loud glade of the precincts of Teachers College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Columbia in the Heat | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

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