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W. G. Rogers was a World War I doughboy on furlough when he bumped into Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in a French provincial hotel. Miss Toklas ("Pussy," Miss Stein called her) was wearing "a sort of uniform," consisting of a cloak and a skirt with vast baggy pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Makers of Wonder Bread | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Partly because it is never too busy to see people, the Scripps-Howard Press has become the biggest, richest and most influential paper in Cleveland. Its red carpet is always out for readers, whether they come with a complaint, a hillbilly band or (it has happened) leading a bear, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Press | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

"Lots of museums buy pictures they don't really like. People can stand at an exhibition like this and argue all night on whether museum people are dodoes and filling their places with tommyrot . . . But museums don't buy pictures to live with. They buy pictures in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dodoes & Elephants | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

The corn is as high as an elephant's eye,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: As High As an Elephant's Eye* | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Enhancing Milady. If anybody knows about Hollywood nightclubs, and how to get a room jumping, it's Herman Hover. When he took an option on the famed Giro's six years ago, he was taking on the town's No. 1 white elephant. When a fire gutted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Herman's Place | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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