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...have fixed your front cover to the wall. There can be no more suitable "pinup" for us right now . . . [It] hardens us for our own fight for freedom . . . this time on the right side...
...Sevareid, a measured, calm-voiced reporter who is hard-put to give both sides of every question in his allotted 5 minutes; NBC's Morgan Beatty, who alternates reading the minds of the Politburo with such "colorful" items as Hollywood's reporting an increased G.I. demand for pinup girls; and Mutual's Frank Edwards, who claims to have tipped his listeners in advance to the B-29 bombing on the Naktong front and usually sounds willing to punch anyone who disagrees with...
Domergue's Black Widow was the same cute trick who made him famous. "I have been painting this girl for 25 years," said Domergue happily. "Of course when I started she wasn't called a pinup, but she has developed into one. Now this particular painting I have been thinking of for ten years; one day it suddenly came to me. It is the eternal drama of the man pursuing the woman. He is successful in the end, but, as in so many cases, he is spiritually killed...
June Allyson found she is the new type of pinup. Editors of 250 college papers, who admire her because she "likes a good book, loves children, and is a good conversationalist," voted her 1947's Most Lovable Movie Actress. Lovable Miss Allyson is now reciprocating by picking the Ail-American College...
Three years ago, the Chavantes again stood in the path of Brazil's great dream-the "March to the West." Airmen of the Brazilian Central Foundation, a grandiose colonizing scheme, dropped on them pots, pans and even pictures of Hollywood pinup girls. That only frightened the Indians. Rondon's Indian Service tried again. More presents were left: machetes, bright cloth. Recently, the Indians nibbled. Every 15 days they gathered in large numbers for the gifts. Last week the 156-year-old war was over. To General Rondon, now 82 and in Rio, the leader of the mission...