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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four of the six slogans on this page may be familiar to you. You will find the fifth on pages 42 and 43 of this issue; the sixth will appear in TIME'S issue of Sept. 12. With the illustrations and the accompanying text they constitute a series of advertisements about advertising that will have appeared in a total of 41,000,000 copies of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE by the time the last advertisement has been published...
...names on the program at Chicago's Ravinia Park were familiar enough; Chicagoans had heard Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky as brilliant, and highly individual, soloists. All summer, musical Chicago had been wondering what would happen when the three virtuosos got together in a trio for the first time...
...story was familiar, at least in outline: Librettist Eric (Let's Make an Opera) Crozier had freely adapted his comic libretto from Guy de Maupassant's Le Rosier de Madame Husson. A bumpkin is chosen King of the May because in the village there is no girl virtuous enough to be Queen, eventually winds up on a roaring toot. To this, Composer Britten hitched a witty, somewhat Peter and the Wolf-ish score, in which each instrument seemed to portray (or mock) a character on stage. There were other Britten trademarks: well-fitting songs and exciting ensembles. Even...
Soft Blue Walls. Between lectures and educational movies, wide-eyed mothers & fathers stared at the refurbished classrooms with their soft blue walls and off-white ceilings, newly varnished floors, took in the fluorescent fixtures, sleekly comfortable seats and desks. Comparing them with the kerosene-lit, bench-lined rooms still familiar in Arkansas' rural areas, they asked: "Why can't we have this all the time?" and "How much does it cost...
...comedy in A Sea Change comes bubbling from the familiar old wells of human vanity, but the effect of this particular bucketful is to give the U.S. butcher-paper weeklies a good dousing. Dennis' fictional magazine is called Forward, its wealthy owner is social-minded Mrs. Gertrude Morgan, and its readers are advanced, intelligent people who have no patience with old notions of simple, pre-Freudian goodness, pre-Marxian prosperity or purely American foreign policy. At pretending to know what they don't know, Forward's editors are impressive, and none is more so than swarthy, neurotic...