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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Salem, Mass., some people named Hale, cousins of Author John P. Marquand, identified themselves as the characters in Wickford Point, the 1939 Marquand bestseller about upper-class decline & fall. The Hales are co-owners with Marquand of Curzon Mill, where the family has lived for generations, and which they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

The trouble with The Leading Lady was not that it preferred glamor to reality but that it never came close to either. It requires a little more than costumes, clichés and a liberal sprinkling of famous names to make a period and a profession seem lustrous; simply calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

As soft-spoken as his art is assertive, Hopkinson thinks his approach to portraiture "very oldfashioned. But just as on the stage it is easier to act a drunken man than a line character, it is easier to draw a caricature than to paint a face that denotes fine character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Finding the Fine Things | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

The special appeal of an activities center is its association with a general, rather than with a departmental interest of the members of the University; and the only question of its suitability as a memorial, apart from its possibly prohibitive cost, is whether its memorial character might wear away as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case for a Memorial Plaque | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

The single character which links these sequences together is called "Joe." He is presented as an unemployed veteran who finds that he can look into a person's eyes and tell what that person dreams about or wants to dream about. So Joe puts a shingle up on his door...

Author: By George A. Lelper, | Title: Dreams That Money Can Buy | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

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