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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Worth also admit to the committee that the whole scheme had done the Navy no good? Worth would go further than that: "I will state to anybody that I've done the Navy no good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meet the Author | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Plunging from a chuckle to a shout, bellowing into a telephone in his broad Yiddish accent, flourishing an unlit cigar, Dubinsky directs this show with shirt-sleeved zest and an even hand. Says he: "You've got to be on your toes, not on your bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Little David, the Giant | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Retailers have also plugged cowboy stuff to the hilt. As one said: "Cowboy things used to be considered just toys. But we've been smart enough to take them out of the toy class and make many of the items necessities for many kids. Now they wear blue jeans and Levi's to school, even in New York." Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus has set up a special cowboy section; Philadelphia's Lit Brothers has a "Western Trading Post." And retailers have egged on manufacturers to add new "cowboy" items. The latest item on the list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moppets' Stampede | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Leading Paris designers will create gowns of the Minoan period (the film's setting), and Seventh Avenue will turn them out to be sold by 600 stores through the length and breadth of the land. (Says Condon: "We've got more on Minoan culture than Arnold Toynbee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Deluge | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Young Lady: "Oh, I've smashed my bottle of Lydia Pinkham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everybody's Grandmother | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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