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...half years the editors of the tabloid Army Times never put their paper to bed without a pin-up girl in it. Like their "Gripevine" column, the pretty creatures helped build circulation (now 375,000), and hold it when mustered-out readers had to be coaxed over to the veteran's edition. But an irate letter from Bastrop, Tex. momentarily shook the editors' faith...
...great bowl set amid the mountains. There was no living thing in sight, not even the fearsome character who (the legend said) cut off the heads of explorers and prospectors. All Berton found in his quick peek were two crumbling cabins near by. In one was a faded pin-up picture of Rita Hayworth, which the exploring reporter matched with a pin-up note: "Kilroy was here...
...late igth Century. The plot consists of one pale joke (in the 18705, typists seem to have been referred to as "typewriters"). It isn't much fun - despite the Technicolor, some hitherto unpublished Gershwin tunes. Dick Haymes's pleasant baritone, and Betty Grable's incomparable pin-up legs...
Excerpt form Pie Magazine, December 1946, in an article entitled "The Way I Look at College Men," in which select pin-up girls were asked their opinions on the subject...
Author Hoberecht's plot was simple, sentimental and surefire: in captured Jap strongholds in the Pacific, War Correspondent Kent Wood found faded pin-up pictures of an almond-eyed cinema star (who looked a lot like Movie Actress Yetkiko Todoroki, good friend of the author). Later, in Tokyo, they met and fell in love. But they had to woo in secret, for her studio forbade fraternization. When another correspondent was murdered by a former Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl friend tossed away her chance for a big role by confessing that she was with...