Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buenos Aires matrons sighed with nostalgic rapture. Not in eight years had their radios brought them the rich, persuasive tenor of José Mojica, onetime idol of Latin women up & down the hemisphere. But last week he was back once again, on a program sponsored by a B.A. department store. José's programs were no longer filled with rollicking Mexican airs and passionate love songs. Handsome José, now a greying 54, had long since given up the luxury and adulation of a movie star's life and become a Franciscan monk...
...horrified middle-aged women sat and watched 91 murders, seven holdups, three kidnapings, ten thefts, four burglaries, two cases of arson, two jailbreaks, two suicides, a homicidal explosion, one blackmail and assorted cases of assault & battery and attempted murder. All of this violence, reported Mrs. Clara Logan, president of the Southern California Association for Better Radio and Television, was seen by association members-between the hours of 4 and 9 p.m.-during one week of television shows over six of Los Angeles' seven TV stations...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Little Women, with Peggy Ann Garner, Meg Mundy, June Lockhart...
...begins Mass at 5:30. Though Mass is normally a matter of some 30 minutes, he may take an hour and a half to say it because he often groans, weeps or passes into a state of ecstasy. After Mass he begins hearing confessions of the streams of men & women who wait through the night at the church door in all kinds of weather. Confessions are finished at 1 in the afternoon; then the bearded Capuchin sits down to his single meal of the day: a bunch of herbs and a few small pieces of bread...
...advertising world, the quipsters say, every agency has a special back door to accommodate its swarms of vice presidents. Last week, Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., fifth biggest U.S. agency,* had to enlarge its doors. It added four women to its present complement of 40 male V.P.s. The new veeps: Alberta Hays and Margot Sherman, both heads of copywriting groups; Florence Richards, an account executive, and comely Dorothy B. McCann, an executive producer in the radio-TV department and wife of McCann-Erickson's Board Chairman Harrison King McCann...