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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this shoddy dilemma until it stumbles into a shoddier solution. Halfback Mature's recipe for mending a broken marriage: smear your wife's lipstick across her chin, beat her about the face and tell her you love her. All in all, Easy Living is no great shakes either as education or entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Closed Deal. In Oklahoma City, Mrs. Bessie Ledick told the court that when she offered to sell a set of false teeth to Fred E. Humphrey, he tried them on for size, seemed satisfied with the fit, but refuses either to return them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Stage. Flanked on either side by huge towers of brickwork that once formed the walls of the calidarium, Caracalla's is one of the world's biggest opera stages: more than a third of an acre. To keep it from looking empty, the Rome Opera summons a mob of supers that even Hollywood would admit was colossal. Ten horses, three elephants and a camel usually turn up onstage for Aida. In this season's Lohengrin, 700 performers (and Benito Mussolini's favorite white horse) were onstage at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera at the Baths | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...strode on to the stadium court to test his new-found relaxation against the most relaxed man in big-time tennis: Pancho Gonzales, who had hammered Frankie Parker out of the tournament with his customary booming serve. On Labor Day, in a match marked by no great relaxation on either side, Pancho Gonzales beat Ted Schroeder for his second U.S. singles championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relaxation at Forest Hills | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...problems of modern air training is finding a fast-enough target for fighter pilots and antiaircraft gunners to practice on. Towed targets are much too slow, and they don't maneuver realistically. The ordinary "drones" (small remotely controlled airplanes) are not fast enough either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fastest Drone | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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