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There seemed to be a good chance that the President's military aide had done so only for the most pathetic of rewards-for flattery, good fellowship and a fool's false sense of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Deep Freeze Set | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...father, Illinois-born Francis Taylor,* is an art dealer who used to be a European buyer for his uncle's art business, Howard Young Galleries. Her mother, Sara Sothern Taylor, once had a good part in a 1922 Broadway production of Channing Pollock's The Fool. Elizabeth grew up to seven in a handsome London house, and in a 15th Century lodge in Kent. Her family got around in art, literary and political circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Congress has not complained since. The Senators' traditional snuffboxes and sand-shakers are filled without fail. Bills and documents are promptly distributed, errands are run lickety-split. (New pages are still sent on a fool's errand to find a "bill-stretcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High School on the Hill | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Well you can't fool the CRIMSON either. We are going to dispel a myth which is more president than the myth of Santa Claus, a myth perhaps nourished and protected by some misguided CRIMSON editors of some dismal yesteryear. But as we said you can't fool us, there is no such thing as "the Radcliffe Girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Radcliffe Community Is Heterogeneous | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

...hiring a little-known Negro singer named Billy Eckstine, they tagged him with such labels as "The Sepia Sinatra" and "The Bronze Balladeer" to help lure customers in. Some were lured, and many of them began buying Billy's M-G-M records. By last year, after his Fool that I Am had sold around 200,000, Billy, a big, well-set-up (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) boy with flashing white teeth, had begun to look like a top crooner in his own right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. B. Goes to Town | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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