People: Work & Play

The Artists' Group of America picked the country's ten most beautiful women. Among them: Elizabeth Taylor ("Face and grace of an angel"), Ava Gardner ("Temptingly curved bosom and hip lines"), Esther Williams ("Flawlessly formed jaws and thighs"), Ginger Rogers ("Fine bold chin"), Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt ("Shapely ears"), and Mary Pickford ("Everybody's 'favorite aunt' type").

From a proud Newark, N J. representative, Pope Pius XII accepted a gold badge making him an honorary member of the Newark Police Department.

Off for a tour of France, Belgium and England sailed World Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray...

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