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...kept to a minimum, however, and the plot is a good one, as anyone from Plautus to Giradonx would testify. And what the book lacks in comedy is more than made up for in the excellence of Porter's music and lyrics, and the lavishness of Lemnel Ayer's decor...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/30/1950 | See Source »

Huff. It was a grey day, with just enough rain to annoy but not enough to refresh; in the musty conference room, of Andrew Carnegie decor, it was just as depressing. Then in strode Harry Truman with his usual cheerful step. For a man deep in fateful decisions he looked singularly unruffled. Never the worrying kind, since war broke out in Asia, the President had, nevertheless, on several occasions, seemed weary. Last week, even the weariness was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: It's Going to Be All Right | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...could be true, as cantankerous Andrew Jackson Gillis kept insisting, that he was not the same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a vegetarians' convention. But the coming of middle age, a wife and a new black bowler had smoothed some of Bossy's sharp edges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: The Old Zamg | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Luxurious Interior Decor...

Author: By Petter B. Taub, | Title: Now in Fourth Year, Modern Language Center Mixes Scholarship with Informal Atmosphere | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live giraffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Night Life of the Gods | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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