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...were acceptable. McDarrah' turned down an interested trio of amateur photographers who wanted to improve their lens technique with beatnik girls. He had already found the sort of client he wanted when he sent beat Poet-Painter Ted Joans (ne Jones) to Scarsdale, where 32-year-old Joyce Barken, wife of a business executive, had turned her living room into a way-out coffeehouse, filled it up with the square root of society-doctors, lawyers, engineers, brokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFF BROADWAY: For Hip Hosts | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...political speeches.... Italian forces (and barbers)--English diplomacy.... and even Haile Selassie's umbrella. His frail mind cannot encompass the full significance of one event before another is cried aloud in the market place. Today, therefore, he resorts to that old escape--one frowned upon by maladjusted psychologists--to barken to those gentle soul who "tell tales of little meaning, though the words are strong." As the world is thrusting itself forward to a dismal future the Vagabond is thrusting himself back upon an epic past. He will listen to Professor Rollins discuss the early epics in Server...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/4/1935 | See Source »

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