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Although the maintenance men come by appointment, they are used to seeing bare sunbathers jump up, let.out a squeal, and do a header into a towel. At the home of one Hollywood star (first magnitude), the maintenance man often finds her with a male guest, necking at the poolside. Says the imperturbable workman: "We just work around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: The People's Pool | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...male voices were making a lot of noise-and considerable money (next year they will take in close to $1,000,000). All six of these crooners had one or more things in common: rumply hair, wistful smiles and the languid air that makes some bobby-soxers want to squeal. As a group they were not necessarily the most promising singers.* But they were fairly typical of scores of eager aspirants to the crown of Crosby, the lesser diadem of Sinatra-or even the rich, purple mantles of Perry Como and Dick Haymes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Languor, Curls & Tonsils | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Something for the Girls. Above all other sounds came the penetrating squeal of indignant women. No female was too young or too old to be considered a target. Unwary old ladies were conked by water bags. Until the police called a halt, hundreds of women were rumped by electrified canes and battery-powered "jump boxes"-instruments which made them leap like gazelles. Thousands of women-even the tarts who gathered expectantly near hotel exits-were soaked by the Legion's merciless squirt guns, by a truck-mounted spray machine, and even, at times, by streams from the jugs which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: The Battle of Broadway | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Ludwig Bemelmans' third whimsical novel. Moses Fable was the fleshy, flashy chief of Hollywood's Olympia Studios. Bemelmans (Hotel Splendide, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You) gets more out of a pig than Swift and Armour (they miss the whimsy as well as the squeal). Dirty Eddie becomes a $5,000-a-week movie star who earns himself swill-pails of fan mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Star Is Farrowed | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...meat-packing industry brags that it uses all of a pig but the squeal. The lumber industry is different. It is so wasteful that a conservationist once growled: "They use the squeal and throw away the pig." No more than a third of a felled tree becomes lumber. The rest is left in the forest or is wasted at the sawmills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: More Than the Squeal | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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