Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he began to croon, Lewis Reid of the Morris agency asked Character Actor Irving Kaufman to assume the role. Plump, pink-faced, freckled, balding, Kaufman, who as a small boy once played a spurious Russian midget in vaudeville, has portrayed Lazy Dan for Old English Floor Wax, Happy Jim Parsons for Air Conditioning Training Corp., Johnny Prentiss for Gruen Watch Co. He boasts that he has made more phonograph records than any other singer, having worked for 22 companies under ten different names. On the radio he has played as many as twelve characters in one sketch. But until...
...smaller fry who make up most of the industry were not production-minded. Rich, pink-cheeked Bomber Builder Reuben Fleet of Consolidated Aircraft, sensing the uncomfortable pressure of his biggest customer (the Navy) complained of the "risky margin" of 2¼% at which he might be forced to make planes. Having got some new plant as a gift from the British, many planemakers wanted a similar gift from the U. S. By year's end, U. S. aircraft was in an obvious mess. This month little Republic Aviation laid off 50 men because it could not get parts. Deliveries...
...Pink-cheeked, scholarly, hard-working President Henning W. Prentis Jr. (Armstrong Cork) expressed the uncertainty in his keynote speech. Pledging industry's support to the defense program, he granted that industry could produce more than it has "if we are, in the opinion of Government, faced with emergency war production." Then, like a Labor M.P. confronting Churchill, he asked the Government to define its defense aims...
...Buchholz Gallery opened the first U. S. one-man show of a long-dead Munich painter named Franz Marc. Just before the outbreak of World War I, sad-eyed Franz Marc became disgusted with human beings, decided to spend the rest of his life painting animals. He painted pink and blue horses prancing in quiet landscapes, garish dogs, tigers, monkeys, cows and deer. Germans regarded him as one of the topflight painters of his period. When Painter Marc was mustered off to war, even his animal world seemed too close to the savage world of reality. From the Western Front...
Last week devout Brazilian toymakers thanked their patron saint and a U. S. businessman as they delivered 250,000 toys to Lojas Americanas, Brazil's best-known variety chain. It was the biggest order they had ever received from jolly, pink-faced Jim Marshall. Born in the Scranton coal belt, Jim Marshall is no Yankee fireball. Eschewing the impatient, hardheaded methods of most "dollar diplomats," he has for twelve years been just as friendly, almost as easygoing, as his customers. Result: he is the No. 1 storekeeper for Brazil's masses...