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The Hoffman closets in the four-room frame house overflowed with packages; they came from Miami, from Seattle, from all over: a xylophone, a miniature church with chimes, a blue music box, a toy army camp. The halls were filled with hand-carved wooden gifts flown from wounded servicemen at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Comes But Once | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Beauty's Slaves. In Kansas City, four boys were charged with stealing auto accessories: police found them in a sedan equipped with seven tail lights, four spot lights, two radiator lights, a red light in a radiator cap, two flags, three coon tails, a silver ball, two crosses, two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

At the other extreme of modernity was the electric violin employed in Bowles' "The Wind Remains." This device consists of a piece of wood, strung with violin strings, but lacking the sound-box. The vibrations of the strings are electrically amplified through a loudspeaker system, producing a very full tone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC B0X | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

Bon Vivant. Benjamin was the first Jew ever offered an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. He turned it down to become a U.S. Senator (from Louisiana). In an age of eloquence, Benjamin was eloquent too. Many of his speeches were as fancy as a beaded bag. But he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel Disraeli | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

There was no sound from most of Christopher Wren's churches in the City of London. But there were the old guttural notes from St. Paul's Cathedral, and the same mellow chimes from Westminster Abbey. At Coventry the cathedral bells, all that were saved in a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Peacetime Clamor | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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