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...Rock Creek and Flathead tribes wailed, danced, and thumped tom toms. The occasion: the tribes' annual Root Festival, when members thank the Great Spirit for causing the roots to ripen and the salmon to run. The tepee was electrically lighted; in the grove outside a soft-drink and balloon vendor set up his stand, did a profitable business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Never was art more "modern." Some of the pictures were mere dabs, streaks and splashes of color; others showed impossible animals and people with grinning Balloon heads on stick bodies wobbling up out of knee-high skyscrapers. There were "abstractions" made of pasted scraps and bits of string; portraits of black-mustached papas; princesses sitting between curtains of golden hair; fish flying over ocean liners; a pink & purple Christmas tree, and multicolored cowboys lassoing long-horned swirls of mud. Yet few visitors to the show in Manhattan's Museum of Natural History last week indignantly asserted that their kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kid Stuff | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Someplace, always, rounds have dimples in their tops like apples. My balloon has a gathered place. Apples are round and red sometimes. They start little on trees and grow up inside their skins like people. Ellen used to be an apple baby She's not red yet and on her big round tummy She has a bellybutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Guns, Babies, Bellybuttons | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Meanwhile, out behind the Stadium, Crimson weight hopes have already begun to cystallize. The Harvard 16-pound hammer record of 170 feet 1 inch was established on May 20, 1939, by W. J. Shallow '40. It is about as safe now as a balloon in the hands of three five-year-olds. When it will be broken is merely a question of which of the three Varsity strong men rounds into shape quickest. Leading the triumvirate is Jack Fisher, a Senior and All-New England center for Dick Harlow last fall. The former Andover athlete who threw 168 feet...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/21/1947 | See Source »

...lying covered with newspapers in a handcart. The shrewdest, Yid, 13, a pickpocket, bends over her. "She is nearly going," he says to seven-year-old Curls. "Look at her belly. I know, from camp. You can die from a shrink belly or you can die from a balloon belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Joyce | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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