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...cocktail party near Frankfurt with her husband, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Madsen. They drank bourbon-and-Coke, played "Pass the Kleenex,"*and Yvette twitted her Georgia-born host, another U.S. officer, on his Dixie drawl. "O.K.," responded the airman good-naturedly, "how do you say it in Brook-lynese?" Sensitive Yvette slapped the joker full in the face and demanded that her husband take her home immediately. Andy Madsen, a Californian, was too busy laughing to pay much attention. He tossed her the keys to the family car, and Yvette stormed out alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Dialect of the People | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Though he cannot brook restraint or criticism and has quarreled with most close business associates, he cannot bear to be alone; he keeps himself surrounded by a circle of yes-men. They treat him with anxious concern, like veterinarians in a lion's cage. But McCarthy needs them-to mix him a drink, answer the telephone, nod when he speaks, to leap into a plane with him if he wants to go to New York, to Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Covent Garden's 24-year-old Producer Peter Brook had warned that his new Salome "is not a production; it's an hallucination." A superconfident, baby-faced wonder boy who likes to shock, Brook had looked for a designer for the Royal Opera House's first Salome of its own since 1936 who could "reflect visually both the cold, fantastic imagery of Wilde's text and the hot eroticism of [the late Richard] Strauss's music." In mustached Surrealist Salvador Dali, he thought he had found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Like the North Pole | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Probable Winthrop starting lineup: le, Stein; lt, Horihan; lg, Southerland; c, Byrne; rg, Boardman; rt, Nathan; re, Bisbee; qb, Couch; lh, Brook; rh, Kelly; fb, Hernberg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Football Teams Face Yale College Squads Today | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Winthrop was playing without the services of first string halfbacks Frank Hernberg and Pete Brook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans, Lowell Tie; Deacons Top Weaker Funsters | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

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