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...Evolution of the Pictureless Bursars Card...
...overcrowded pretty-face category. She nabbed a few - notably in Rain and Grand Hotel - but those parts at MGM, which held her contract, usually went to the likes of Norma Shearer. After 17 years, Crawford moved on to Warner Bros., where she held out for two pictureless years until she got Mildred Pierce, which won her an Oscar in 1945. That film launched her on her middle passage, during which she played women who suffered much for love or ambition...
...absorbed just by leafing through it; and duty done, the thing lends its own cachet as it lies there on the coffee table. Of course, for those with the courage to seek them out and match them with the taste of the recipient, there are even real pictureless books for real reading. This year, however, the surprise is that some of the picture books are actually readable too. Among the dog books and bird books, joke books and gardening books, gun books, horse books, bridge books and seemingly endless art books, the following stand...
...Paper. The paper began as a thrice-weekly, became a daily in two months. Circulation rose to 450,000 copies a day, then was cut back to 350,000 because of the newsprint shortage. Today, printing six to eight grey, pictureless pages a day, the paper has 40 editorial staffers, 40 linotypes and four presses...
...newest thing in newspapers is a Buck Rogerish fantasy come true. It is a four-page, pictureless, adless New York Times - containing much of the News That's Fit to Print, distilled from the Times' s regular 32 to 40 pages. It crosses the country by wirephoto, at the speed of 20 minutes a half page, and delegates to the San Francisco conference read it at breakfast...