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...alluring voice belongs to a tall, slender woman who looks something like Rosalind Russell and wants to be known only as Lonesome Gal. She is not at all anxious to tell the world that her name is Jean King, that she is 32, and that she lives in Hollywood. "I'm not a person: I'm a symbol," she says dramatically. "These guys think of me as their gal-lonely, like them; and wanting affection, like them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: How Are You, Baby? | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Bearded Author Elliot (The Last Time I Saw Paris) Paul brooded, in the current Atlantic, on Paris' modern grisette: "The female denizen of the [Latin] Quarter, vintage 1950, is slender, supple and strong. The calves of her legs . . . indicate . . . that for years she has gone from place to place on bicycles . . . She is not consumptive, like Mimi . . . She does as she likes . . . When she takes a fancy to a poor young man . . . it is not the modern Mimi who will be timid or afraid. It will be Rudolph, if anyone, who trembles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...turned out, this was nothing but a canard. Quitting was the last thing in the mind of Jack Blanton, a dignified, slender man with alert eyes and a bald-eagle head. One of the best-known country newspapermen in the U.S., Editor Blanton, winner of a University of Missouri award for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1939, was still at work, and was going to stay there for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When I Was a Boy | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...plane to collect $55,000 in insurance on his wife and children ($25,000 from the vending machines and $10,000 on each passenger, carried by the airline). Later, Betty Grant, a plump woman with an upswept hairdo, got some more news: her husband had promised to marry a slender, red-haired American Airlines stewardess named Elizabeth Soumela, who knew nothing of his plans to kill his family, and thought his divorce was about to come through. In New York, a 32-year-old private secretary identified Grant as the father of her three-year-old baby, and said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Third Suitcast | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...languages are carried by 38 short-wave transmitters in the U.S. and 19 relay stations at Woofferton (England), Munich, Tangier, Salonika, Honolulu and Manila. Voice stations are located in some exotic places: the transmitter in Tangier stands on a sultan's former hunting domain, and the slender blue-and-white transmitters near Manila rise elegantly from damp rice paddies. In a twice-daily air assault against Russian jamming, the Voice teams up with some 30 BBC transmitters. Voice broadcasts are also carried by domestic stations in more than 50 countries, including the French government network. The Voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Voice of America: What It Tells the World | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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