Word: teller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a beautiful painting without warmth . . . the figure without a bosom. But put the flat-chested woman in the proper foundation . . . giving the illusion of soft, sweet curves. . . .-From an ad by Manhattan's swank Bonwit Teller...
...also from Brooklyn, told this colorful tale last week on his radio program, Salute to Youth (NBC, Tues., 7:30 p.m., E.W T.). He recently replaced the show's William L. (They Were Expendable) White as Goodyear's $1,500-a-week coast-to-coast war-story teller...
...rest of the cast is much the same as the New York troupe. Conrad Nagel, who replaced Frederic March as Mr. Antrobus last year, is excellent; Florence Reed, one of Broadway's best supporting actresses, does admirably as the prophetic fortune-teller...
...teller of the tale of Aitutaki was Archie Campbell, onetime hard-boiled Seattle Post Intelligencer newsman, now second engineer in a Liberty ship. A world-traveled cynic, Campbell had always scoffed at South Sea legends. But now he testifies: New Zealand owns the island, but has governed it by leaving it alone. The normal population includes 2,000 Polynesians-strong, handsome men & women. Aitutaki has no commercial value and in peacetime is almost never seen by white men; now it has a holding force of blissfully happy U.S. troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding...
...Very Very Southern." Stark Young is known to his friends as an ardent garden er, a collector of objets d'art, "a character, " a wit and a superb teller of un printable stories. He was born in Como, Miss, in 1881. Papa Young was a doctor who, says Stark, would have preferred the role of Southern planter of which the Civil War deprived him. Mama Young was ''very very Scotch, and very very Southern." Stark Young, as his romanticism and rhetoric show, is pretty Southern him self...