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Since they became the Dunces, the group has sung at every Dunster House dance, and they will perform at Dunster festivities after the Brown football game tonight. At times, too much liquor intake put an edge on their voices, but fame, like intoxication, spread, and the Dunces were invited to...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Dunster's Dunces Sing Almost Anything for Diners, Dancers, Barflys, Coeds, Frappes | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

Critic's Teeth. Liebling has decided prejudices of his own. "The Sun" he says, "is a suburban paper published "on the island of Manhattan . . . as perfectly preserved as the corpse of Lenin." Liebling's impression of Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Nowtherefore and whereas and ahem." PM's Max...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wayward Pressman | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

It was all a little unnerving to 65-year-old Composer Stravinsky, and when he saw the papers, he denied that he had written the arrangement: he had only okayed it. Stravinsky once wrote an elephant's polka for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey, and a jazz concerto for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stravinsky in Tin Pan Alley | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

To General Dwight D. Eisenhower from King Frederik of Denmark went a bejeweled medal, the country's highest decoration, seldom given to anyone but princes: the Order of the Knight of the Elephant; from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, a bejeweled, gold-sheathed sword whose blade bore the engraved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Moo & Moola. They blinded Gus to Flora's shortcomings, but they could hardly conceal her size. "Although a large girl, Flora was scarcely more muscular than a hundred and fifty pounds of jelly. . . . She had the even disposition of a milch cow . . . and [admired] Gus as if he were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fool's Paradise Lost | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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