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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lipstick and crossed legs are attractive features of the American scene. TIME meant no slight to Captain Grod-zka and her Pestkas, who have proved their valor at firsthand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Radio Rough House parties are open to all persons bent on having a good time. Alumni of this activity who are now at M. I. T. are particularly invited to attend, and everyone is urged to bring as many guests as he wishes. No tickets are required, but a slight admission charge to defray the cost of expenses will be collected at the door. For a good time with all the trimmings, your best bet this weekend is the Radio Rough House Party at Memorial Hall...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: Naval Training School | 3/24/1944 | See Source »

Even though he was trained to the minute and had not eaten solid food nor had a drink of water all morning, he registered slightly more than the 135-lb. mark. Chick Wergeles (rhymes with Hercules), Beau Jack's voluble little manager, let out a roar of protest. William Brush, of the Department of Weights & Measures, called it 135 Ib., maybe a slight bit over, but explained that the crowd around the sensitive scales would cause enough extra pressure to account for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxer's Breath | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Dark, undapper Frederick Robert Kuh (pronounced coo) last week could stick another large feather in his old beret. As he pedaled his creaky bicycle down to London's Whitehall he could expand his slight chest over the almost unanimous judgment of his colleagues: Freddie Kuh is the best U.S. foreign correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Kuh's Coups | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...part of the national idiom that even $64 prose stylists avoid using it-and quizmaster of one of U.S. radio's most popular shows, Take It or Leave It (CBS, Sun., 10 p.m., E.W.T.), Phil Baker was ready to put both on celluloid. But there would be one slight variation: to suit Hollywood's philosophy, the $64 Question would become the $640 Question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $64 Question | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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