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Form books take a dim view of local chances for individual honors in the marathon. Aside from Joe Verduer of LaSalle, world champion in the breaststroke, and diver Norm Sper of North Carolina, all the laurels seem destined to fall on the brows of the capable Elis, who will bring...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Top Eastern Swimmers Compete in Pool Today | 3/19/1948 | See Source »

For the social snobs, Runyon (who spent $50 on his own shoes) could pause to comment on the fancy shoes being worn by the Marquess of Queensberry; for hero-worshipers he had the right tone of awe ("Now here comes J. Pierpont Morgan himself . . . [and] you see the lightning behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Things to All Men | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Commercials for television are causing deep furrows in admen's brows. The perfect solution, advertising experts have decided, would be an overpowering combination of eye-catcher (four roses in a hunk of ice) and ear-filler ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot").

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Message from the Sponsor | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

His first Madonnas perfectly mirrored the Byzantine ideal; he gave the Virgin smoothly arched brows, like two bows, and a delicately pursed mouth, in the accepted tradition, and made her cool and peaceful as a cloud. And she never changed, essentially, in all his later paintings of her; she only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gifts for God | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

World Forum. Nobody ever accused Foreign Affairs of being exciting reading; the magazine and its readers are much too serious to worry about boring anybody. A forum for high, grey brows, Foreign Affairs offered "a broad hospitality to divergent ideas." In its sober rag pages, chancellors, premiers and secretaries of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: High, Grey Brow | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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