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...Tribune dropped all display advertising so that it could use the newsprint thus saved to print 100,000 extra copies. Many other newspapers did the same. The San Francisco Chronicle went farther, dropping all chatty columns, women's features, etc. PM omitted its regular Sunday picture of a pin-up girl. Everywhere newspapers broke out their 260-and 300-point wood-block headlines (known irreverently to printers as the "Second Coming" type). And even the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune used a journalistic symbol for mourning, familiar in Lincoln's day: "turning the rules" so that column lines...
Miss Belmont specialized in what she called "frustrated love songs," called herself The Blue Velvet Voice. Her singing was popular with men. Columnist Earl Wilson came, watched, went away and wrote simply: "Busting all records." Miss Belmont became a pin-up girl, sent 50,000 photographs of her sweatered self to soldiers who wrote countless formal, polite letters in return...
Frances Vorne, a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself The Shape, wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year. First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week The Shape had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the London Daily Mirror, immediately cabled the U.S. for permission...
Linda Darnell, who in six years of Hollywood fame has played many svelte sophisticates (Summer Storm, Daytime Wife), finally reached 21. Hearing that the Hays office had been killing her pin-up pictures, she remarked: "That's one difference being 21 makes. I don't believe they've paid attention to me before...
...These pin-up rates for transatlantic service enlivened the continuing Civil Aeronautics Board hearings for North Atlantic route certificates. At the same time these glib rate-cutting promises were committing airlines to start their postwar services at rates as low as 3½? a mile-lower than some experts thought could be achieved for three or four years. If transatlantic traffic fails to come up to the airlines' optimistic expectations, operating costs might prove difficult to cover...