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There was some chance that Vag understood all this but it was slight. And he didn't have much time to cogitate for new the professor was silently lapping up his notes in his folder and was stepping off his stand. A perplexed hush followed. Vag looked around, a bit puzzled, but nobody moved. Pink and purple argyles, he thought, was this a last class? Still nobody moved, but Vag decided to risk a gambit and slapped his notebook closed with a loud crack. It was the right thing to do, for right away his row was clapping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

Millard Sheets's watercolors look a little like illustrations for a travel folder, but they have a dash about them, and unmistakable crowd-appeal. Hollywood's art lovers, from the Edward G. Robinsons to the Johnny Mercers, turned out in style one night last week to open Sheets's new show: views of Mexican mountains and market places whipped up from sketches he had made on a three-week tour in January. Highballs in hand (it was that kind of opening), the stars rubbed elbows with local critics and museum directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Successful Man | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...will have to run like in the Yale meet to beat M.I.T.," Coach Mikkola commented yesterday. He produced newsclippings from his folder to show why. Last fall, the Varsity ran second to M.I.T. in a five-way meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Face M.I.T., Purple In First Test | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

...week they sent exploding cream-colored envelopes to Ernie Bevin, Anthony Eden and other prominent Britons. Nobody was hurt-largely because of the British Government's long experience with unfriendly mail. But the packet was ingenious. Within an inner envelope, marked "Private and Confidential," were 1) a cardboard folder containing enough powdered gelignite to kill the opener, 2) a pencil-sized battery, and 3) a detonating system supposed to work when the envelope was slit with a metal letter opener or when the expectant reader opened the folder. The gadget lacked, of course, any enclosed note of apology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Umbrella into Cutlass | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...plug Detroit's Timken Silent Automatic Oil Burner, Dean Robinson handed out architects' sketches of houses, along with a folder of building information. So many people wrote in for blueprints that Timken was swamped. Robinson thought Timken should go into the business of supplying blueprints. But Timken said no. So Robinson quit and decided to do it himself. He teamed up with Designer Richard D. Pollman, 33, and two other Detroiters to form Home Planners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Cut-Outs for Grownups | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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