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Last week, still thinking about the case of Barbara, Universal-International struck a blow for art (hip, thigh & bosom division). The studio's legal experts fashioned a new clause to go into all starlet contracts: for the first five years of her term, the starlet must yield to the company's right to make "reproductions of her physical likeness, leaving it to the discretion of publicity and advertising directors to determine what is a reasonable degree of exposure of her pulchritudinous assets . . ." As a sample of its discretion under the new charter, the studio pictured the assets...
After 22 years, 65-year-old Editor Balmer, a prolific fiction-writer himself, was moved upstairs last week to a job as "associate publisher." As his successor, Redbook hired a postgraduate of what is known in the trade as the "bust and thigh" school. The new editor: boyish, curly-haired Wade H. Nichols, 34, who has made Modern Screen the fastest-selling movie magazine on the newsstands...
Yale stars Jim Fuchs and George Apple are cinches to win their events-the shot and the pole vault. The thigh jump shot prove close. One Britisher is known to have jumped 5 feet, 11 inches, and Yale boasts a pair of freshmen twins who are both able to jump close to 6 feet...
...long, hard week for Harry Truman. Each morning he chatted and chaffed his way through ten appointments, and each afternoon he thrashed about, thigh deep, in the budget. Outside his oval office early in the week an unseasonably warm sun drenched the White House's south lawn. Inside, a hustling Truman was as busily in-season as a department-store clerk in the Christmas rush...
...caught the illness at an early stage. He is up & around Buckingham Palace every day, limping slightly but not using a cane or crutch; usually he rests his foot on a pillow while working. Main medical treatment is described as an electric apparatus (which stimulates circulation), fitted around the thigh. Other possible treatments: rest in bed if there is pain; hot & cold baths; heat; drugs that dilate the arteries; a nerve-cutting operation...