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...standing with one foot on the quai and one in a gondola haggling with the gondolier over prices when the gondolier gave a quick twist with his car . . . One of the oddest hazards of the summer was the admonishment in a cata-comb in Rome, "Persons tampering with the relics will be excommunicated...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Italy Has Jeeps, Cokes, Monuments, Students Find | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

Ever since, there has been war between Petrillo and A.G.V.A.'s parent body, the A.F.L. Associated Actors & Artistes of America, whose affiliates cover every entertainment field from circuses to grand opera. Petrillo was accused of signing up any actor who played so much as a musical comb. But he called it raiding when the "Four A" tried to enroll musicians who,. according to Petrillo, only stepped into the spotlight or said two words like,"Hello, hello." Many entertainers solved matters by belonging to both unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Render unto Caesar... | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...spindly child in the streets of Paris "I cried . . . cried, without tears. You understand?" What she means is that she bawled her songs. Even now, France's famed chanteuse needs no microphone; she sings out, nasally, a little as if she were singing through a papercovered comb. But with her infallible feel for beat and flow, Piaf fans find it pretty exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Vie en Rose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...appearance" by Felix West, of Trumper's, London, who also cuts the hair of Grandfather King George. Burbled Barber West: "He sat up like a little man while I went at it with the scissors. Didn't even squirm. Laughed when I tickled his ear with a comb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Like a Little Man | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...couple of bottles of wine and a siphon. A slender young boy joined us. "Who is he?" I inquired. "Son," said Tito laconically. Aleksander, or Misa as everyone calls him, is a skinny child with big wide eyes. Later, before I took their picture, the dictator took a comb and smoothed down the boy's unruly hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Broncobuster | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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