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Dramatic Club productions have run smack into sex on other occasions. In the fall of 1946, nation-wide ballyhoo proclaimed that the HDC's production of "Adam the Creator" would be adorned by an Eve dressed only in three scanty fig leaves. Location was unspecified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Remains in Amphitryon Despite Socialite's Demand | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...nest? As Mason tells it, that is quite a story. The son of Illinois ex-Senator William E. Mason, he went to Washington in 1934 as a lawyer with NRA. When that job folded, he was so broke that for a time he lived on Fig Newtons. Then his good friend Billy Richardson, part owner of the Washington Senators, gave him a free box alongside the dugout at the ball park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Dissenter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...including four other trumpets) had to say. Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up on top. Pieces like Two Bass Hit and Stay On It didn't sound like "moldy fig" music (boppese for "decadent" Dixieland jazz); but, except for Dizzy's wild, fast-riding solos, they did sound like something Duke Ellington had thought better of a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How Deaf Can You Get? | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...fill gem hen fro ? from jog pop fig but sill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Best by Test | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...goings-on-how every bathtub brimmed with forbidden gin; how the men, half-crazed with lust and easy money, rushed at the women and seduced them incessantly, on the hills, in the streets, in the valleys, and particularly on the beaches; how the women didn't care a fig, and responded to the assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike, antiSemitism, neurosis, a punch-drunk stockmarket and other cultural menaces. And so, at long last, a strong moral message ("Destructive violence must be fought-with constructive aggressiveness") soars across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Pot in Every Chicken | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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