Word: mermaids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peabody & the Mermaid (Universal-International). Mr. Peabody (William Powell), a proper Bostonian on vacation far from Beacon Street, hooks the Mermaid (Ann Blyth) in Caribbean waters. He keeps her first in his bathtub, then in his fish pond. He likes her, more than seems proper for a married man to like a mermaid. She likes him, too. She bites a girl who is flirting with him, and causes his jealous wife to huff back to Boston. In the long run the lovers have to part and a psychiatrist takes over with a full explanation. Men around 50, he points...
...both evening and daytime dresses. Lucien Lelong hailed it as the "rediscovery of the shape of the body, emphasizing the bust." His black crepe daytime dress, Cythère, cost $360, and his evening dress, "Amphytrite," looked like a revival of the old hourglass figure. Lelong dubbed it the mermaid figure...
...champ chipped a bit of gilt off her successor's fame last week. Brenda Helser, one of Coach Jack Cody's Portland (Ore.) protégées, was the nation's swiftest woman sprint swimmer a year ago; then along came another West Coast mermaid, Ann Curtis (TIME, April 23), and snatched away her indoor and outdoor titles...
...They began publishing shamefacedly, thinking they should find work in defense factories. They printed two books of poetry by modern Polish poets, in editions of 1,000 each, sold them to Polish-Americans, including Polish speaking steelworkers in Pittsburgh. The Roy Publishers' first book was The Mermaid and the Mcsserschmitt (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942). It sold a respectable 5,000 copies, with Mrs. Kister traveling through the Middle West to persuade bookstores to stock it. At 6 o'clock one winter morning Mrs. Kister was in Indianapolis when her husband called her from Manhattan. The Book...
...Poland for her historical novels. Now that her husband, a colonel in the Polish Army, is in a German concentration camp, her whereabouts is hidden from the world, but her publishers, refugees in Manhattan, have republished in English her latest novel. Translator is Rulka Langer, Polish author of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt (TIME...