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The Wages of Sin. Cleanliness is a latter-day worry of Confessions' publishers, the four sons of "Captain Billy" Fawcett. Since building the family fortune on the smokehouse smut of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, they have made crime pay (Daring Detective, Startling Detective, Dynamic Detective), profited from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fawcett Formula | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

As long-haired and hollow-cheeked as ever, 157-lb. Gunder the Wunder had added an American "O.K." to his vocabulary and, more important, he had a brand-new public-relations approach. Far from being the uncooperative, stubborn Swede who visited the U.S. two years ago, this time he seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brand-New Hagg | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

By such seat-of-the-pants flying, Alaska managed to provide 28% of the territory's population with passenger, property and mail service last year, topping even Pan American Airways' lusty subsidiary, Pacific Alaska. But Alaska Airlines lost some $60,000 in the process. This was pleasing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: North to Alaska | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

The tunes, however, especially More and More, Californ-i-ay, and the title song which is caroled in an early American bathhouse, are solid enough Kern, if a touch too operatic for the winter's juke boxes. And Miss Durbin, whose hair has been dyed a pleasing pink for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

To Kuniyoshi, for pleasing the experts: $1,000. To Cox, for pleasing the public: $200.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The People's Choice | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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