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Swedes stepped from the stand, exhausted, they had the zazous mopping their brows too. "Who would have thought those cold Nordics could burn so hot?" they marveled, and "hot enough to crack those icebergs!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Do You Get It? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

One of the more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows. He eschews the Wilshire Boulevard school of humor, where in an ether buffoon sends a studio audience into unrestrained hysterics...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

CADILLAC has ventured even farther along the high-compression road. Its 160-h.p. V-8 engine, most powerful in any G.M. car, has a 7.5-to-1 ratio, yet is 5 inches shorter and 215 pounds lighter than last year's. The mileage, 14 to a gallon, is 15...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

A good backfield man ("most valuable" player in the National pro league in 1928), slim Jimmy put on a mountain of weight as a coach, and with it a fat reputation as a football man who could talk without lacing his brows into a gridiron scowl. Once when he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Refugee from Football | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

As in most movies that grapple with Art, the burden of the suffering falls on the audience, which is subjected to all the knitted brows, quivering nostrils, tossed locks-and tantrumacious bad manners-that cinemaddicts have learned to recognize as signs of artistic genius. The Red Shoes is such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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