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...list. Going at $16,500 are two Carravaggios, Profane Love and David with Goliath's Head; Gauguin's The Green Man, and Bronzino's Eleanor of Aragon. Pieter Breughel's Amsterdam under the Snow is priced at $14,850; Bronzino's Venus and Cupid at $13,750; Antonio Moro's Portrait of a Man and a Manet still life, Flowers and Fruit, at $11,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sale | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Wearily, Mr. Trammell said that he, representing RCA Victor, and CBS (Columbia Records) were now ready to sign. His cupid's face lit with cupidity, Little Caesar said he would go to New York immediately. He suggested, with spider-like politeness, that Mr. Trammell come to his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Triumph of Honesty | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...promising start, Playwright Akins soon badly bogs down. In terms of plot, she has little more to offer than that Karl Marx is no match for Dan Cupid. In terms of comedy, she can only let her flighty, bird-brained heroine chatter on for three long acts. Now & then the chatter is funny-"Everybody needs money these days, even the poor"; perhaps an act of it is fun. After that, it is pretty much an assault upon the eardrums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan, Apr. 10, 1944 | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 24, 1944 | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Cupid's Coupons. Oscar F. Soule, chairman of the Syracuse, N.Y. county rationing board, persuaded a young soldier and his bride-to-be that the board's authorization for their marriage was not required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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