Word: polishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Angel in Disguise. Now Leahy has Johnny Lujack. This veteran of 36 months in the Navy is a brown-eyed, brown-haired, Polish 21-year-old who never has much to say. As T-formation quarterback he does no running (although he used to be a left halfback); he keeps busy thinking, punting, passing and doing much of the tackling...
Chopin: Piano Music (Maryla Jonas; Columbia, 6 sides). Neat, womanly interpretations of mazurkas, nocturnes and waltzes by a Polish artist who zoomed to the top in two recitals (TIME, April 8). Performance: good...
...time of the knockout, 2 min. 9 sec. of the first round, was a near record for Louis. In 1938 it took Joe just 2 min. 4 sec. to polish off Max Schmeling, who had made the mistake of knocking out Louis in their previous meeting...
...romantic glow or a sly satiric glitter. The gypsy heroine who aches to be a lady (Helena Bliss) soon has all the more eligible tenors in the cast at her feet-but returns in the end to Sandor, her rough gypsy mate. For though Sandor may lack pelf and polish, he has the sock tune in the show, that great old Victor Herbert chestnut, Gypsy Love Song...
...Revlon, which sells more lipstick and nail polish (other products: powder, rouge) than anyone else, all this was just new gilt on an old lily. When they founded Revlon in a $25-a-month office in 1932, Brothers Charlie, Martin and Joe Revlon decided to capitalize on names, beginning with their own. They had another cardinal principle: a woman's most important points, unless she's in a bathing suit, are her eyes, lips, hair and hands...