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...favorite summer pasture last week, and frisky as a yearling. His costume-grey flannel trousers, blue flannel jacket, white wool beret and white shoes-made him look like a jaunty boulevardier at the beach. Visitors to Tanglewood, Dr. Koussevitzky's music colony near Lenox, Mass., try to compliment the maestro by calling it "an American Salzburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tanglewood, U.S.A. | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...placid Kate Dickens bore her husband ten children, suffered four miscarriages. But Dickens' attitude toward pregnancy and childbirth was "outwardly unsympathetic and often that of a low comedian." "My wife," Dickens informed a friend, "has presented me with No. 10. I think I could have dispensed with the compliment." "He seemed to think," Dame Una explains, "that she alone was responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Englishman in Adversity | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould have never met. But Al Capp has been admiring Dick Tracy from afar. Five years ago Capp put "Fearless Fosdick" into his Li'l Abner strip, a detective whose hat brim snapped and jaw jutted just a bit more than Tracy's. The compliment has never been returned, because Tracy is too busy catching villains (Itchy, Shaky, B.O. Plenty, Pruneface, etc.) to go in for burlesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lena v. Gravel Gertie | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...decision was proof of its satisfaction at the 15-year-old Saturday matinee broadcast, which brings in $12,000 a week from Texaco, sponsor of the ABC airing. The Met also wanted to pay a compliment to an audience which may be undressed-or even unwashed-by Horseshoe standards, but is not untouchable. In 1940, a third of the Met's million-dollar contributions came from radio listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Folk Operas | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...curator of birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman - who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter - -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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