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Lampy added his own spice to the brew with an ill-fated beauty feast that needs little rhashing. B. Rose came out on the odd end of that one, as did Chill Williams in the Dramatic Club's sorry hunt for masculine pulchritude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Been a Hard Year Since February, Harry . . . . For Renaissance Was Just Around the Corner | 6/7/1946 | See Source »

...Within the octave of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moviegoing Morals | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Last week the Czechs set out to discover what kind of noises Allied music had been producing behind the din of war. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the citizens of Prague opened a four-week Government-financed International Music Festival. Main courses in the feast: jarry American spice and the lean tonal dishes of modernists in Russia, France and England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gershwin in Bohemia | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...feast days," says Maynard, "he was quite likely to show himself in church with a jacket over his cassock and his biretta cocked on one side and with a lay-brother who had been told to keep brushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Clown | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...something. They were-the West Wind. One day this week the 17,000,000-odd dwellers along the Nile arose at dawn, took several deep breaths, and went picnicking. It was the Shamm en-Nesim, the one common holiday for all Egyptians-Moslem, Christian and Jew. Once a Coptic feast day, the Shamm en-Nesim means literally "the smell of the West Wind." Irreverent Americans in Cairo call it "sniff-the-breeze day." Egyptians believe that a lungful of the departing spring air will ward off summer languor-provided the sniffer manages to stay awake all day on Shamm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Nose in Air | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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