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...first girl In the second row In the third scene Of the fourth number In fifth position . . . In Igrouchka, I'm a fairy In Pétrouchka I'm a bear And in Sylphides I am something That will really curl your hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

What the hell, it was too hot for football, anyway. Hour exams, tutorial, and that fourth course he hadn't sampled yet needed attention. You, that was it. He would curl up with a little cool beer and a book this afternoon. Vag chuckled at the thought of a B- or two in November to throw at his family. Then he noticed the three couples ahead of him, and the guy across the street with the familiar packages under his arm. He remembered something about a party "after the game." Vag, the student, was left in a phone booth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

Richard Neison Wishbone Harris was making an understatement. In three years, he has built his "Toni" home permanent-wave kits into a merchandising phenomenon which this year will gross an estimated $16 million and net a tidy $3 million profit, enough to curl anyone's hair. By shrewd advertising (1947 budget: $3.5 million), Harris has captured 50% of the home-wave market. A genial gladhander, Wishbone helps sales by gadding around the country calling on retailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Wishbone of Old Eli | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...ones huddle together In time for the evening scare To chill their juvenile marrow And curl their innocent hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Children's Hour | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...Hearst: "We do not have to show the dream at the beginning and end of every page. ... If we simply call the comic something like Dreamer Dick, we would have more freedom. . . . Some device other than the dream might be used. . . . A simple method would be to have him curl up with a history book. . . ." Hearst to Greene: "If we find [the first series] is not a success, of course we can brief it, but if it is a success it should be a long series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Adventures in Dreamland | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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