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...returns. There is an economy move sweeping the world's glamour capital that would warm the heart of Congress. With this new move is going a nation-wide search for talent, and a general firing and salary cutting process that is shaking the foundations of many of Beverly Hills' swank shacks. The results can do the industry no harm. It has suffered a bad five years. Although slow to come back, this picture hints that its top technical skill, combined with some fresh imagination, will make the nation-wide habit of moviegoing once more a rewarding experience...

Author: By Lawrence D. Savadove, | Title: The Narrow Margin | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...Dallas' swank Neiman-Marcus store (for saying that "some Neiman models are call girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Libel Confidential | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Soon afterward, Batista married his present wife, Marta Fernández. The President had literally run into her with his car a few years earlier while she was riding a bicycle down Fifth Avenue in Havana's swank Miramar district. She has borne Batista three children. He also had three children by his first wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Dictator with the People | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

When Eisenhower's headquarters heard that the Taft forces had set up shop in the swank Sheraton-Plaza, the first reaction...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Headquarters: II | 2/8/1952 | See Source »

Fire swept through the swank Princeton Campus Club late Saturday night, causing $60,000 worth of damage, but no injuries. Starting at 2 a.m. after a formal dance following the Princeton-Dartmouth game, the blaze completely burned out the third floor dormitory space and destroyed the personal belongings of 23 girls who were staying there. Firemen finally got the flames under control after three hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Club Burns Down | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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