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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: After 21 Years | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Juanita was getting ready as far back as she can remember. Her grandmother landed her first part, the role of the Christ child in a Christmas play: "Grandmother was religious enough, but it took a theatrical turn." Soon after she reached New York, Juanita landed a chorus job in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: After 21 Years | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

As steelmen met in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week for the American Iron & Steel Institute's annual convention, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Harry Truman's good-will ambassador to U.S. business, brought them mixed tidings. For one thing, they were not alone in their doldrums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After All ... | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

For months, the CCC had been warning farmers to build their own storage bins., Not many had done so. Most farmers would have to look, as they had always done, to the country elevators-and soon they would have to look elsewhere. Many farmers would have no place to put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: No Place to Go | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Three days before many of the Quo Vadis staff were to leave for Italy, Peck's eye puffed up. MGM, which needed every bit of the bright Italian summer for outdoor scenes in Rome, feared that he would miss the July 1 deadline. Last week the studio bowed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quo Vadis, M-G-M? | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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