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A year ago last summer, they worked up a bouncy little tune for Bob Hope to twang to Jane Russell while leading a covered-wagon train in a western called The Paleface. Record companies recorded it, then held back on it, as usual, until about ten to twelve weeks before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Buttons & Bows | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Some of the freshest, as well as some of the stalest, writing in U.S. newspapers appears on the sport pages. The men who write the sport headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Such Language! | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

"You must become a pianist," Paderewski told him. "You have such beautiful hair." In time, Harold Bauer, who had started as a violinist, did become a pianist, certain that he had chosen the most glamorous occupation in the world. He was one of the shiniest stars of the Hofmann-Schnabel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Why Be a Pianist? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

You own four business suits, a suit of dinner clothes, two summer suits, two sport jackets, an overcoat, topcoat and raincoat-and you picked them out yourself; your wife seldom if ever shops for your clothes with you. You also own 21 shirts, six pairs of shoes, three hats and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Maine's laconic men have never had much natural respect for a woman's judgment. "Give a woman all the advice in the world and then she'll go ashore with both anchors on the bows," they say. But once in a while they have to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAINE: A Yard of Pump Water | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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