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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with a jitterbug personality. Best scene: the free lance collecting his pay with the boyish happiness of a man who has done his first honest day's work at a job he likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...lived for a while with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"-a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was. Then, at the age of 14, he became a juggler in an amusement park. After that, his only work was to make people laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Made Curmudgeon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

After reducing himself to an object as piteous and work-ridden as an aged charwoman's knee, Toombs wails an old refrain: "Waking up in the morning is the worst mistake that a housekeeper can make. You have the awful feeling that you are in debt to the day . . . Housekeeping [is] certainly the hardest job I . . . ever tackled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laughing Gas | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Flowers of Hawaii sells about 85% of its orchids for giveaways and other promotion stunts, but it is hard at work setting up "orchid bars" in U.S. stores to sell the flowers for as little as 25?. There are 21 orchid bars in the U.S. now; the newest one will open this week in Richmond, Va. While low prices have killed the vanda for the retail flower trade, Dible thinks that giveaway orchids are helping florists nevertheless, by making people who have seldom gone into florist shops more flower-conscious. Said one orchidman: "Why, eight out of ten women have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Blossom Boom | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...issue came to a head Thursday when the board met to elect a new president to succeed Gilmour, who is resigning because of a heavy work schedule. At that time Shafer's supporters claimed a majority of the Advocate's 18 editors, although not the 75 percent required by the magazine's constitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Ex-Advocate Editors Begin New Magazine | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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