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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notable and unadvertised rendition of the bird part in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. "He did not strike a single false note," said Washington Evening Star Critic Alice Eversman. "If he could only read the scores-" sighed one of the musicians. But trouble lurked: Melody carries no card in Petrillo's Musicians' Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: A Look at the Paper | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...that failed? After needling Morrison for failure to produce any domestic plan to meet the crisis, young Tory David Eccles buttonholed Morrison in a House of Commons lobby. "Haven't you got any card up your sleeve?" he asked anxiously. Morrison shook his head sadly and replied, "Have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bad News | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Card. Another possible drain on "Loan" dollars begins this week as Britain becomes obliged to convert into dollars some of the sterling credits held by foreigners (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bad News | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Adhemar is part democrat and part demagogue, part do-gooder and part spellbinder. There is something about him that suggests Franklin Roosevelt-also Huey Long and Fiorello LaGuardia. He was once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, but now disclaims any allegiance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Our Adhemar | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...near Dallas, he likes to give big parties in a bar whose walls are sheathed in gleaming tarpon scales. Murchison takes off his tie, rolls up his sleeves, and invites his guests to do likewise. He keeps a six-seater converted C-47 (complete with bar, three couches and card table) to whisk him back & forth from his 120,000-acre Mexican ranch, where he goes to hunt and fish. And his way of announcing his arrival at home is to bellow to his houseman: "Start the juleps rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 60-Day Man | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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