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...Pictures in advertisements must conform to specified sizes: in newspapers and magazines a photograph or sketch of a dress, for example, cannot take up more than six square inches. A picture of a box of tea is permitted, but not a picture of a group of women enjoying tea. In mailorder catalogues either a front or back view of a coat may be pictured, but not both; only one shoe can be shown, not a pair. Only when it is necessary (such as in a suit or hat advertisement) can a picture of a human figure be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Australian Advertising | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Finally rousing himself resolutely, he decided that this lost soul must be educated, and brought into the fold. He strode to the book-case and pulled down his copy of Jack Frost's "Harvard and Cambridge Sketch Book." After a few moments spent thumbing through the pages, he located the one he sought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/12/1943 | See Source »

...Rudy Vallee his first chance to do something besides croon, and he does it in a surprisingly winning way. As a pince-nezed, third-generation Rockefeller (screen name: John D. Hackensacker III) who pursues slinky Claudette Colbert like an expectant collector after a particularly fine butterfly, Rudy is a sketch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...plethora of attempts for significant subject matter. David Hessey's "Young People" is typical of much that is best in the issue. A straightforward account of a child's reaction to death, this story's modest omission of psychiatric analyses only adds force to a peculiarly penetrating and satisfactory sketch...

Author: By T. S. K., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 12/17/1942 | See Source »

...back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sooty Palette | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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