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Early in his Hollywood career, the town gossips began dividing Hughes's women friends into two classes: 1) the established celebrities-Billy Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Bette Davis, Gloria Baker, Ruth Moffett, et al.-with whom he was seen in public; and 2) the young, eager and not too prudish unknowns with whom he was almost never seen in public. Hughes has a harsh word for the latter: he calls them "crows." But even from them he fears a rebuff. It is part of Meyer's job to see that the green light is up before Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mechanical Man | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later creations as raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape. With her cotton-winged angels (Chastity, Divine Discontent, et al.), Mrs. Ape wowed high society by singing her inspirational hymn: There ain't no flies on the Lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Knife in the Jocular Vein | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Some of Swift's best letters and politer verses are included in this volume, and so is the proud Latin epitaph that he wrote for his tomb: ". . . ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit; abi viator et imitare si poteris strenuum pro virili libertatis vindicem . . ." W. B. Yeats, nearly 200 years later gave this inscription a great translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gulliver in Context | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Fifth Ballot et seq. If Dewey has failed on the third, and Vandenberg has not shown a commanding upsurge on the fourth, the race will go to the best behind-the-scenes trader-Speaker Joe Martin, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, California's Governor Earl Warren or anybody else on whom the party's leaders can agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Crucial Third Ballot | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Though he has publicly shown just one handmade model, Preston Tucker has somehow managed to raise over $20,000,000 to finance production of his rear-engined Tucker '48 (TIME, July 7 et seq.). Last week, Promoter Tucker announced an ingenious scheme (which the SEC is carefully watching) to raise millions more. He wanted to sell radios, seat covers and other extra accessories to prospective car buyers for $270 a set. They could take delivery in six weeks or wait until their cars are delivered. In return for paying for the extras now, the purchasers would get a priority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Millions More | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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