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...Con Kennan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...briefcase (stuffed with documents setting forth the legal rights of street musicians) and a big display board on which was tacked a postcard which read: "You are certainly the most extraordinary virtuoso since Paganini ... If you can stop the abominable jazzers' practice of playing the saxophone as con sordino [i.e., muted] and as disorderly as possible, you will be a great benefactor as well as a great player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Virtuoso | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 18, 1951 | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope in a wild, gagged-up farce of race-track touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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