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...good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand to the simplest and cheapest French Canadian farmhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Winter Wonderland | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...misleading translation: paradis is French slang for a theater's cheapest, topmost balcony seats. More idiomatic translation: The Kids in the Peanut Gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...leading Protestant groups in Mexico (Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists) is teaching the Mexicans to read and distributing copies of the Bible at minimum cost. Catholics are not pleased with the fact that Indians can buy a well-made Protestant Bible for 6½ pesos ($1.35), while the cheapest Catholic Bible costs 22 pesos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics v. Evang | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...long Rio's fashionable hairdressers entwined flowers, jewels and ostrich plumes into lacquered coiffures. The weather was warm-but ladies who like to show off their platinum fox coats showed up at the Teatro Municipal in them anyhow. The cheapest seats in the gallery were $4.80; and the house was sold out. Baldwina ("Bidu") de Oliveira Sayao (rhymes with bye now), the cause of it all, was not surprised. Said she: "When they love an artist, they really love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homecoming | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant on a field turquoise; 4) a turquoise sailboat floating among gilt stars. The motto: Pourquoi pas? Cheapest perfume: $30 an ounce. Its original formula, confided Mother Gloria, was discovered by Partner Maurice Chalom in his French chateau, hidden in an old bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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