Word: vargas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of magazine in which a mother says, "Have a good time at the party and be a good girl," and her daughter replies: "Make up your mind." In Washington last week the Post Office Department began a hearing to determine: 1) whether Esquire's jokes and its "Varga Girl" drawings are obscene (TIME, Oct.11; 2) whether second-class mail privileges should be denied to the widely read (circ. 695,285), 50? smoking-room slick...
Ever since it was cited by the U.S. Post Office last month for naughtiness (mostly because of its lithe, leggy, lightly clad "Varga Girl" drawings), the magazine Esquire has been crusading zealously in its own behalf. In a series of advertisements in newspapers and trade magazines it had been preparing for its Oct. 19 hearing (at which postal examiners will determine Esquire's right to continue to use second-class mail) by back-patting itself as a soldier-sailor morale builder...
...washing machines, Albina bought up 800 old clocks, sent as far as St. Louis for a broken-down washing machine, fixed them up and sold them at cost. Other dodges: 800 lilies were sold to workers at cost at Easter; the less pious can buy at any time special Varga-type-girl calendars. An Albina soil expert counsels 1,000 Victory gardeners. Haircut absenteeism was cut by persuading nearby barbers to sloganize "An Albina Man Is Always Next." Albina's own cobbler gives three-day service v. three weeks downtown. Result: absenteeism at Albina has dropped from...
...Soviet Economist Eugene Varga said that Russia would demand reparations from the Axis first, before they are paid to Britain and the U.S. Besides payments in money, goods, livestock and machinery, Professor Varga said that 10,000,000 skilled German workers would be required to repair Russia's property damage...
...picture is, but it's an interesting antique as well as a satisfying comedy of manners. Despite an unexhilarating pace, it is skillfully acted, and enjoyable if you don't go with the sole intention of seeing nakkid women. The only nakedness to be observed is the collection of Varga girls plastered on the bill-boards outside the theatre...