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...Saturday night the field had narrowed to five honey blondes, one chestnut blonde, one corn-tassel blonde, two brunettes, one redhead. They stalked back & forth across the stage in formal gowns, danced, sang and displayed in somber black bathing suits what used to win Miss America contests. Judging took so long that the master of ceremonies ran out of gags, took to reading comic strips aloud. Said Sergeant Silvagni's wife, a bathing-beauty expert: "I thought they'd be a bunch of dogs this time. But they're prettier than I expected. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dignity in Atlantic City | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...advice to un-single men, "Red" Schutte is horning in on our very own territory. Fifty men in the second swimming group can testify that a certain red-headed JCC (Junior Cadence Caller) refers to him constantly as her "Superman". We recommend leniency in this case, however, Dote, the redhead is not quite five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

What Rudy Vallee needed was a big-nosed redhead who could take a verbal pratfall. A year ago, when his music & gag show started skidding badly, Rudy got the girl. Comedienne Joan Davis accepted a two-week guest spot on Rudy's program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rudy's Girl | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Miss Potter sailed with a lusty boatload of ditch diggers, carpenters, welders, structural iron workers and cat-operators from Seattle. "There were not many women aboard-only a few school teachers and Army and Navy wives, a prostitute and a giggling 250-pound redhead who had arranged her trip through a matrimonial bureau." Miss Potter "heard one well-soused carpenter tell the purser 'Who the hell wants to go up there anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seward's Icebox | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...announcer at the Dodgers' baseball games since 1939. Fond of statistics, he made an excellent foil for Elson, since his chatty, easygoing Southern voice was practically impervious to excitement. Acutely aware of his personality, he refers to himself at regular intervals in a fatherly way as "the old redhead." His reported yearly earnings: above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 50,000,000 Ears | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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