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William S. Knudsen is grey-haired, bulky, ruddy. Walter Philip Reuther is rufous, pint-sized, pale. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther first knocked their heads together when one worked for General Motors, the other for the C. I. O. autoworkers' union. Frazzled after a tough bout with a union committee in Detroit, G. M.'s Knudsen once glared at Walter Reuther, barked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: A PLAN FOR PLANES | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...last fortnight, the Oles! rang loud; the band played the bullfighters' cheer song-Diana; even Chucho Solorzano, reigning matador of the season, rose to pay his respects to the honored guest. The hullabaloo was not for Henry Wallace, visiting U. S. ambassador of good will, but dark-eyed, pale-faced Hollywood Starlet Linda Darnell. Linda, cooing contentedly in a seat between Mexican Movie Favorite Fernando Soler and portly Singer Alfonso

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mexican Movies | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Night at Earl Carroll's (Paramount) concerns operations at Showman Earl Carroll's pale green "theatre restaurant" on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. There is unconsciously aimless comedy by Ken Murray and others, and the Earl Carroll chorus girls strut stiffly about the stage in irrelevant maneuvers involving immense fans and Christmas-tree headgear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...hurled insults at "silly old Bill Green," president of A. F. of L. He declared: "The labor movement cannot exist or function without confidence on the part of its members, each with the other, confidence that they will associate themselves together. . . ." The next day, jut-jawed, broad face pale, he delivered a bilious soliloquy, kindled bitterness on all sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Wars to Lose, Peace to Win | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...handed over her five-story house with no strings. Director Plaut would have liked to raise $25,000 to remodel it, but the war held him down. He settled for $4,000, contributed by Institute members, painted the red brick front grey, the front door bright blue, the interior pale blue. He lighted it by fluorescent indirect lamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Plaut's Root | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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