Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Lima's "Wine of the Country" [TIME,-April 25] awakened memories. It might also serve to describe a spot in San Francisco in the days of the Bank Exchange and its presiding genius, Pisco John...
...Reader Ripley's memory has wandered slightly: the stylish Bank Exchange's presiding genius was Duncan Nichol, and potent Pisco Punch ("Two, and you'd hug a wildcat") was his invention. Pisco John's was a sailors' pub a few blocks away...
...Belvedere Goes to College. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius (TIME...
...broadly of the charms of the grisettes, he noted in his diary: "When I balance the attractions of good and evil, when I consider what facilities, what talents a little vice would furnish, then rise before me not these laughters, but the dear and comely forms of honour and genius and piety in my distant home, and they touch me with chaste palms moist and cold, and say to me, You are ours...
...Tucker was fired because his boss thought that Tucker's urge to write a novel might possibly embarrass patrons, New York State Mediation Board Arbitrator Sidney A. Wolff handed down the ruling for his reinstatement: "To deny a would-be author employment . . . might well stifle literary and creative genius...