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...Crimson solemnly printed a letter from "a Radcliffe Mother" pleading for the drafting of Harvard's 18-year-olds. Wrote Mother: "Every weekend [my daughter] goes out with a Harvard boy 18 years old, and I say draft him and his kind, the whole lot of them, the quicker the better. Mothers . . . should see him simpering on her doorstep, his fuzzy face shining and insipid, his white shoes dirty and scuffed. They should hear his simple-minded conversation . . . Put him in uniform, give him the experience which will make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crimson's Mother | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...Trends. Lippert boasts that his "very fluid operation" allows him to "let go of a trend" much quicker than his high-budgeted competitors. He can also latch on to a trend more quickly. In ten days and for $91,000, he was fluid enough to put out a picture on space ships (Rocketship X M) in time to sop up the publicity being lavished on the then forthcoming Destination Moon. He beat every other studio to the Korean war with The Steel Helmet (now doing well enough to promise a $2,000,000 gross). Lippert prefers not to say what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quickie King | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...mother, and my daughter, who goes to Radcliffe, is 18 years old. Every weekend she goes out with a Harvard boy 18 years old, and I say draft him and his kind, the whole lot of them, the quicker the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Mother Returns to Rap 18-Year-Old Reprieve | 2/8/1951 | See Source »

...mother, and my daughter, who goes to Radcliffe, is 18 years old. Every weekend she goes out with a Harvard boy 18 years old, and I say draft him and his kind, the whole lot of them, the quicker the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Mother Returns to Rap 18-Year-Old Reprieve | 1/30/1951 | See Source »

Lester Lum Colbert is a handsome, rugged Texan with a quick smile, a quicker tongue and a big hello for everyone. At 45, he is president of Chrysler Corp., the second largest automaker in the world. He never lets the size of his job bother him. He likes to turn to his pretty blonde wife and drawl: "Angel, can you remember when I've ever been kept awake by worrying?" Angel always shakes her head. Says Tex Colbert: "Business doesn't worry me. It's a downright pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: External Combustion | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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