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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hired by David Selznick to teach Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, et al., how to "talk Southern" in Gone With the Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Even as the economy showed signs of getting its second wind, a new threat arose-the possibility of the first serious wave of strikes since 1947. Now, as then, the test would come in the nation's two biggest industries, steel and autos. In both, the C.I.O. was already threatening to strike to get a fourth round of wage boosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fourth Round? | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...richest, noblest families, is their weekend headquarters. There, hostess Lady Montdore whips them through their social paces and screens the bachelors who swarm around her daughter. Polly Montdore at 19 is more beautiful than all the priceless Hampton oil paintings put together-and colder than a Highlands wind. When the man of her choice is free to marry, she does her own proposing, pouncing on a social-climbing old rake who had won her heart by pinching her at 14. She gets her man but loses her fortune: the elder Montdores strike her from their will and seem to plummet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Design for Living | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...months ago, however, a county grand jury got wind of the Stoker recordings. The whole story burst across every front page in town. Triumphantly released from jail for a grand jury appearance, Brenda swept in, neat and businesslike in a tailored suit and dark glasses, began to tell all. $50 per Girl. She minced no words. Ever since she had moved into the upper brackets of her profession, she said, she had been paying $50 a week to her old friend Sergeant Jackson for every girl in her employ. And, she added with a vengeful slap at her persecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Brenda's Revenge | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...expected deficit from ?40 million to ?25 million. Under the old plan this reduction would give France no advantage within the OEEC system. Under the Petsche plan, however, France could transfer 40% of its British drawing rights to another OEEC country, for instance, Belgium. That way, the Belgians would wind up with part of the U.S. dollars originally allocated to Britain. In other words, U.S. "conditional aid" would follow the drawing rights and act as an incentive to trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: 1952? | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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