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World War II's favorite pin-up girls are holding their own. Two secretaries keep busy mailing out the classic shot of Betty Grable in a tight bathing suit. Studies of Rita Hayworth, who has not made a movie since 1948's The Loves of Carmen, are still in demand. Also in high favor: Jane Russell, Esther Williams, Virginia Mayo...
...celebrated the G.I.'s exultant return to civilian life. Now that olive drab is back in style, the Technicolored cinemusical re-enlists in the Army and uses the Japanese occupation as a backdrop for songs & dances by Dan Dailey and Betty Grable, World War II's favorite pin-up girl...
Politburo & Pin-Up. At home, the big-name analysts were also working overtime. Concentrated in Manhattan and Washington, they range from Mutual's Gabriel Heatter, who dispenses folksy anecdotes and emotion-charged speeches in a voice ballooning with sepulchral tone, to ABC's Elmer Davis, who brings a dry and often witty realism to his clearly labeled speculations about what's behind the news...
...reach the first objective, Mission students concentrate on the study of the Bible. For the second, they are encouraged to occupy themselves also with the things of the world. In their crowded dormitories are pin-up pictures of movie stars and sports figures; their bookshelves contain volumes by Karl Marx, A. J. Cronin, Saint-Exupery, and Communist Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard. From the chapel come the strains of Old Folks at Home and Negro spirituals with new French words. Such music is considered to be "in touch with the mass suffering of our times. It is full...
Czechoslovakia's Communist regime last week moved decisively against a new enemy of the people: the pin-up girl. The Czech army, reported the Prague radio, had ordered that all her kind be pulled down from barracks walls and in her place soldiers would see "slogans, pictures of shock workers and examples of our fighting tradition...