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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian Delegate Andrei Gromyko, making his second appearance since his walkout, was particularly gay. The Soviet Purchasing Commission had just bought the $1 million Long Island estate pf deceased capitalist George Dupont Pratt for a reported $120,000 (see INTERNATIONAL) . He himself had received a box of flowers from an admirer who wrote "God bless you and Uncle Joe" and signed himself "Rock-ribbed Republican." The scenery was nice too. Gromyko even accepted a light from a reporter for the Russophobe Chicago Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Operation Whalen | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...show how the Met had grown, Taylor last week put on an exhibition entitled "Taste of the '70s." It includes a few good things (notably Frans Hals's Malle Babbe-Crazy Barbara, the Witch of Haarlem), coachloads of coyly draped marbles and candy-box oils. Most popular picture, rescued from the cellar for the occasion, was Pierre Cot's frothy Storm. Judging by reproduction sales in its heyday, Storm came close to being the Met's most popular picture of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Well-Taylored Metropolitan | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...five years, while Producer Howard Hughes and film censors played put & take with certain shots in The Outlaw, Jane Russell was only a box-office bust. Last week she became a bonanza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bust Becomes Bonanza | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...cricket." They notably fail to learn a big D: democracy. Even among themselves, these young sons of bishops and colonels and bank directors practice an exquisite snobbishness. A boy's standing depends largely on whether his "pater" has "tons of tin" and what expensive delicacies stock his "grub box." The healthy mind in a healthy body, classic goal of public schools, degenerates into a mens corrupted by smut and a corpus battered by flogging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Three Cs and a D | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Good morning without cigaret tzan-tzantza ganga bouzbouc zdouc scars laziness of sparkling lights . . . his belly is a, big box for there are zigzags on his soul and a lot of rrrrrrrrr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Drop Everything, Drop Dado | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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