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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something Rare. Even without talent, Miss Bergman would bring something rare to U.S. films. To cite one single asset which is hers almost exclusively, her photographed flesh looks neither like a Crane fixtures ad nor sponge rubber nor the combined efforts of a fashionable portraitist and a rural mortician; it looks like flesh. Many people, since life must go on, find this attractive, even when it surprises them to see it on the screen. The same thing goes for her poise, sincerity, reticence, sensitiveness and charm...
Western Electric at Kearny, N.J. has a new wrinkle for recruiting woman power: the resonant want ad. Housewives, not in the habit of reading want ads, hear their radios telling of Western Electric's needs at its Kearny factory. Over WOR, department representatives describe vacancies, explain qualifications, stress the importance of women relieving men for the fighting forces. Ex-housewives tell of earning while learning. Results: a weekly average of 30 housewives put to work for Western Electric...
...paper explained that it was forced to reduce editorial and advertising content because WPB had curtailed newsprint. Therefore, Deathless Deer must go. With her, in the issue of July 19, went Embarrassing Moments, Beauty Answers, Love Answers and the stockmarket column. The fact that the News had recently added a three-page classified ad section was not mentioned...
...high-collared radio men are not so sure. Ad-libbed shows give them the aerial willies. So far, the quickness of mistress of ceremonies Arlene Francis, radio & stage actress (The Doughgirls), has stood them in good stead. One losing serviceman, who won an unanticipated $15 consolation prize, gleefully grabbed the microphone and advised his favorite bartender: "Hello, Clyde, set 'em up down there!" Miss Francis recovered with: "He means Maxwell House Coffee, of course...
Some 40 members of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society accepted the invitation of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to attend the opening concert ad helped fill the first floor of Sanders, but future concerts (of this series, in which they will take part August-15.16) will probably have to be better attended by the Cambridge public if these concerts are to be a financial success...