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...sessions to show how jazz promotes good feeling between whites & blacks, reminds its readers of unpleasantness only with a picture story on Brazil headlined: "Starving Negroes Can't Eat Racial Equality." Despite the fact that her show folded before it reached Broadway, Ebony's 19-year-old pin-up girl Sheila Guys (caption: "A Star Fizzles") benefits from Johnson's all-round cheeriness: "Folks back home in Forest, Miss. are betting she'll turn up again one of these days out in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Brighter Side | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...atomic X-ray picture on this page (as far as TIME knows, the first published) was taken with radioactive materials formed by the explosion of an atomic bomb. It shows a woman's rayon purse stuffed with feminine necessaries: keys, coins, a bobby pin and a bottle of nail polish. The metal clasp is clearly visible. The semi-transparent oblong below is a package of chewing gum. The picture was made by placing the purse on a sheet of ordinary photographic film. On top of the purse were placed pieces of twisted steel and several bits of fused earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic X Ray | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...carries the load of running G.M. with remarkable ease. He still dresses with a touch of the dandy. In his tie, he usually wears a pearl stick pin. A silk handkerchief always cascades from his breast pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The First Target | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Colby home, Bobby's mother tidied up her son's room, which was still the way he had left it-pin-up girls and airplane pictures on the wall, a radio and Popular Science on the table, his civilian clothes hanging in the closet. He had been in the North African campaign, then in the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and is now in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: A Letter Home | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

King George VI made a symbolic change that many a common soldier was also enjoying: he walked abroad in civvies (lounge model, pin-striped blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Chosen Few | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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