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...smaller and dirtier and darker and more crowded than Jini's or the OG. And anyone can sing "From the tables..." even if they aren't from Yale. And the parties aren't any gayer, and the martinis are just as bad, and the smoke is no bluer...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: So You're Off to New Haven, eh... | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

Although the Mediterranean ("bluer than ever this year") drew its quota from the Paris office, Correspondent William Chapman chose to seclude himself in a rented room and terrace of an 11th Century tower on a river near Tours. Bureau Chief Charles Wertenbaker, en route to the Basque coast ("my favorite place in the world"), tarried in Spain for his favorite spectator sport, bullfighting, and was so moved that he turned out a report of what he saw for TIME (July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

After a nasty winter (the daytime temperature dropped as low as 70°), Rio had had a hot spell. Most of the city has had only a trickle of drinking water for the last two months. The ocean is bluer and greener; the sky is red at sundown; the crowds are more amorous along Copacabana beach; the open-air streetcars are slower than ever. Smells, bugs and skin diseases have multiplied. So has griping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Razor Edge | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...Bluer than oppositionist Gomecistas were Brazil's Communists. U.S. Ambassador Adolph Berle's recent intervention had spiked Communist efforts to call for a constituent assembly, then stall elections and keep Vargas in power. Now Vargas, too, had discarded the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Neatest Trick | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

Meduxnakik's waters are bluer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1944 | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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