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Margaret Truman, after a Missouri summer, was getting ready for some profile flashing in nosy Washington. Capital gossip had it that the President's daughter had been going in for some fancy nose remodeling. No such thing, said the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tourist in Gaiters | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

What about the political hotheads? In the excitement they were forgotten. But gossip said they had a list of 160 still to liquidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Crime Wave | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Lone Ranger, U.S. radio will have no program quite like Un Homme. It is as French Canadian as the words of Alouette. The 45 characters who wander through the script portray life in la province during the 1890s. There is Caroline Malterre, an empty-headed little widow and gossip who runs the village tavern. There is Alexis Labranche, the jolly mayor. And there are a couple of rascals: Notary Lepotiron and a no-good half-breed, Bill Wabo. (Any French Canadian no-account is now apt to be called a "Wabo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Man & His Sin | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Third Generation. In the lurid brilliance of George Washington Hill, his associates, all hand-picked by himself, seemed pale. But the men who know tobacco best knew that the company had a handful of capable top men from which to pick a new president. Last week gossip narrowed down to vice presidents Paul M. Hahn, 51, and George Washington Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: End of a Legend | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...George Hill thought he saw himself every time he looked into The Hucksters (gossip was that his staff referred to the book in hushed tones as "That Thing"), he was not the only one. Emerson Foote, head of Foote, Cone & Belding, had been Fred Wakeman's boss and "Kim" Kimberly, agency boss in the novel, is a jittery man, given to benzedrine tablets, double Scotches, and other extravagant habits. But in this picture of an ad executive at work, friends of Foote found little they could recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Love That Account | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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