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...gave only four sentences to the President's message to Congress (see above). Wallace's rebuttal got two columns. One Nancy Norman, a U.S. ballet dancer, back in London after a six-weeks' visit to Moscow, said that Wallace was "Russia's No. 1 foreign pin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: No. I Pin-Up Boy | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...Pin-Up Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...until he discovered that the studio had also hired an astrologer-at $1,500. *Humason alone is pessimistic. Thinking of his mercury-spoiled spectrographs, he says gloomily: "You don't know southern California." *The first thing the great eye reflected when set on edge was a row of pin-up girls on the wall of the optical shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Senator Owen Brewster of Maine is holding high his torch, attempting to illuminate the sex, sin and Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brewster's Burlesque | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

Though he had never wilted before, high-handed Avery Brundage melted before Canada's hot wrath. He was ready to admit after a day or so that "extenuating circumstances" might even permit Barbara Ann to keep her car. But Canada's pin-up girl was taking no chances. Said she: "It would be selfish of me to keep the car and lose a chance to bring honor to Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ado About an Auto | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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