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...sellout dinner in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. At the front tables were such glitterati as Actress Jane Fonda and her husband Assemblyman Tom Hayden, former California Governor Pat Brown and Film Producer Irwin Winkler. But as New York Governor Mario Cuomo prepared to deliver his speech, an oyster shucker working nearby was puzzled by all the hoopla. "What's the deal?" he asked. "Is he running for something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mario's Moves: On your mark, get set, Cuomo! | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...stenographers, schoolteachers, movie starlets-are hard put to compete with the high pay and patriotic glamor of war jobs. The first conductorettes on Los Angeles streetcars looked as though they had come right out of a nightclub chorus line. There is hardly any job-truck driver, mechanic, cobbler, oyster shucker, engineer, bartender, butcher, baker or candlestick maker-that women cannot get if they want them and more & more women are getting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women, Women Everywhere | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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