Cinema: Something for the Boys

"Please forgive this pencil, but if you could send me . . ." From Korea and U S training camps, letters with this sort of opening are streaming into Hollywood again, asking for pinups. The requests are already up 400% over the normal peacetime demand at M-G-M

World War II's favorite pin-up girls are holding their own. Two secretaries keep busy mailing out the classic shot of Betty Grable in a tight bathing suit. Studies of Rita Hayworth, who has not made a movie since 1948's The Loves of Carmen, are still in demand. Also...

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