Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dais at the end of the long, red-draped, cream-colored restaurant sat the judges: Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Paris painter of nudes and titles; the slick-haired Belgian impresario, Jean-Jacques Fortis; and, peering recklessly through enormous horn-rimmed glasses, Marilyn Buferd, Miss America of 1946. They were face to face with an international incident. The Stockholms-Tidningen had just demanded the elimination of platinum blonde Miss Sweden on two grounds: 1) she had once been elected Miss China in a Stockholm cabaret contest, and 2) she wasn't a miss; she was a missus, married to an Italian...
...year-old Future has built itself (at $1 a copy in the U.S., $1.20 abroad) a circulation of 20,000. Patterned after FORTUNE and aimed at the managerial class, Future's slick paper and color layouts make it the best dressed among Britain's dowdy magazines. (But its chief competitor, Contact Books, which gets around the government rules by donning stiff covers and calling itself a book, has better writing, a broader editorial outlook...
...York. Ten thousand people, led by the President of France, Vincent Auriol, jammed through the halls on opening day. Some of them found their neighbors' gowns more attractive than the pictures. The acres of art on exhibition (2,000 paintings, 200 pieces of sculpture) were almost uniformly slick, deft and academic...
...Bartley Cavanaugh Crum is still boyish, slick-haired, talkative and leftish. Once a cub on the Sacramento Bee, he was a U.P. stringer on the Berkeley campus of the University of California ('22), then spent 14 years in the office of Hearst Attorney John Francis Neylan before striking out for himself. Now a high-priced corporation lawyer, Bart Crum has found time to ride off on many a leftist crusade. His latest: counsel for Hollywood's "unfriendly ten" writers and producers...
...Clock (Paramount) is a slick screen version of Kenneth Fearing's thriller about a press lord (Charles Laughton) who murders his blonde mistress in a moment of pique. Too late he recalls that he was seen entering the girl's apartment by a man, identity unknown. The publisher sets out to find the witness. He puts the super-sleuthing editor (Ray Milland) of his detective magazine on the trail. Milland is told that he is after "a payoff man in an enormous war-contract scandal," but it doesn't take him long to find out that...