Word: pics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsstands went the September issue of Pic, completely redesigned. Readers of the previous dime, 50-page Pic, which was full of sleazy cheesecake, will hardly recognize the old girl in her new hairdo. The magazine has a new editor-tall, boyish Victor H. Wagner-and he has an assignment to make Pic straighten up and fly right after eight years of floundering...
...from the time he went as a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention. In 1912 he became the G.O.P. vice-presidential candj-date and went down to defeat with Taft. In 1920 he made a bold bid for the Presidential nomination with the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Pic-Nic in November." He got only 69 votes...
...Year and Freedom. Frank and Morrie King are young promoters (in their early 30s) whose other interests range from slot machines in Los Angeles to horse racing in Mexico. At the time they met Yordan, in the spring of '43, they had already made a couple of pic tures. Though they had realized a respect able profit, they did not receive the ac claim they had somehow expected. Their deal: Yordan would contribute "class" and a third of the money; in return they would give Yordan all the freedom he wanted (all there is), and 'a one-third...
...your flip and curt dismissal of a man who is one of the colorful figures of our time. As spokesman for a group of actors, writers and directors, I have today cabled the Duke of Windsor offering to form an independent producing company to star him in a pic-turization of his own life story, or a story of his own choosing, or the post of technical adviser on a film project embodying his own ideas and philosophy. . . . We hold that the Duke of Windsor is a highly employable man and in no sense obsolete...
...free-lanced for a while, served on the editorial staff of a magazine. Carlton Brown, born in New York in 1912, has contributed short stories and articles to The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic. For the past two years he has been an associate editor of Pic. This is his first book...