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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blasted Event. In the Seattle Times appeared a candid ad: "Our pet terrier slipped her chain and so we're peddling pups again. Cockers? Bulldogs? German shepherds? For all we know they may be leopards...
...hips she is a 38, two inches broader than her older sister was six years ago. Dress designers have rallied to fight the battle of the bulge-with greatly exaggerated squaring of shoulders, nipped-in waists, cascading and flaring skirts, peplums, hip-length swagger jackets. Typical London fashion ad last week: "for the slim or not-so-slim," "for the more awkward figure...
Married. Emily ("Micky") Hahn, 40, freethinking, cigar-smoking, best-selling authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum, China to Me); and Major Charles Boxer, 41, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941 and war-long Jap captive, father of Emily's four-year-old daughter Carola; she for the first time,* he for the second; in New Haven, Conn. Said Bride Emily: "I believe in the law, marriage and monogyny. . . . Every child needs a father who is at home. If Charles had died in prison camp I would have married some one else...
...jolted last week. Chicago's Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that unionists may be sued for libel for such statements. The decision grew out of a squabble between Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. and a C.I.O. Steelworkers' local. Back in 1943, Pullman had stated in a newspaper ad that its profits, after all expenses, were only 1.81 of a cent on the dollar...
...Monday. Flying is easier than driving a car. ... It costs less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming light-plane in dustry is trying to sell planes, through department stores, to those...