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...Republic Steel, General Aniline and Film Corp. George knew the men who ran the country. George was a fixer and a puller of wires. That was what George got paid for. Keeping a gruelling schedule, he seldom got home to his Wardman Park apartment and his pretty, pert wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Regular Guys | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...weather, proverbially lovely in the Bavarian lake country, couldn't have been better. Pert little sailboats darting about the indigo water of the Tegernsee, against a background of hazy blue mountains, made the perfect setting for a season that had not been equaled in brilliance for six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Social Notes | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...reputation was probably already past saving. For a fortnight he had stood accused of everything from dabbling in war contracts to arranging for reluctant soldiers to remain in the continental U.S. But until pert Eleanor Hall, a former Garsson secretary, took the stand, there had been no evidence to indicate he had actually received any cash payments for his services. She supplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Still Calling Yankel | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Divorced. Jay Gould III, 27, wartime AAFlyer, namesake and great-grandson of the Erie railroad tycoon; by Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, pert, pretty daughter of Cinemactor Nigel Bruce; after nearly two years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 22, 1946 | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...feet, teeth, etc. and weeded them down to four. The less critical bleachers merely kept up a long low whistle. Finally only Miss Marion Saver, 21, a brunette from Newton Brook, Ont. with a rabbit's foot in her hand, was left. She was proclaimed Miss Canada with pert Miss Muriel Hunter of Hamilton close behind her (see cut). Excitedly she tried to explain that she had entered the contest only on the urging of her family. Said she: "If it weren't for my mother, I wouldn't be here tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Rabbit's Foot Belle | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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