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...Poor old Joe David Brown! His querulous and high-minded lament from Sweden should gain him a quick return ticket to the good old U.S.A. where sin and sex are packaged more temptingly in well-stacked pinup girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...little too muddy for comfort, but the players wade around in it bravely. Charles Bickford plays the big producer with vigor, and Jack Carson is a howl as a pressagent. Actor Mason right to his alcoholic end, glows with a seamless health and handsomeness that may delight the pinup trade but will hardly convince anybody who has ever had a hangover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...self-billed "Merchant of Venus," Walter Thornton ran one of the three biggest model agencies in the U.S. He claims to be the discoverer of Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Dorothy McGuire, Lizabeth Scott and Arlene Dahl, and the first to use the phrase "pinup girl." He also has shown a talent for getting publicity for Walter Thornton. Of modeling, he once said: "This business gets 1,000% more publicity than it deserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: 1,000% Publicity | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...Moscow's favorite pinup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Gordon Hall, professional anti-fascist and editor of the monthly magazine "Countertide," last night termed Yale's William F. Buckley, Jr. "the newest pinup boy in the hate network." Speaking before the undergraduate chapter of the United World Federalists, Hall said that Buckley was even "rivaling Senator McCarthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hall Hits Buckley for Un-Democratic Policy | 1/16/1952 | See Source »

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