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The over-the-counter market, where Tommy shares are traded, is usually quiet. So are Tommy shares. But last week both boiled. Brokers, their bookkeepers in a quandary, demanded an explanation. At last, straight-lipped, youthful Frederic A. Willis, Tommy gun's vice president and cousin of England'...
For the past few weeks such plaints have been pouring into Newark's station WOR, addressed to a program called Here's Looking at You. Originated by Pegeen Fitzgerald, erstwhile fashion director in a Manhattan department store, and Richard Willis, onetime cinema makeup man, Here's Looking...
First to go to work on each program's prospective Cinderella is Make-up Man Willis. To girls with buck teeth and freckles, to elderly ladies with grizzled hair, to buxom young things with fat red cheeks and curves too voluminous, he points out cosmetic errors, boldly proposes new...
Originally WOR feared that the program would attract no volunteers, was soon assuaged in a homely rush. Tactful but frank, Fitzgerald & Willis let the ladies discuss their own drawbacks, are always hopeful even when confronted with a clock-stopping face. Typical guinea-pig comment: "I hate to be homely. My...
Son of a man whose life was devoted to automobiles, young Chrysler, unlike young Vanderbilt, Labrot and Brady, was never taken to race tracks when he was a kid. A bookworm and esthete, he dabbled in book publishing and other arty ventures while still in his teens. Suddenly, last summer...