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...operate an elevator. 2) Our basement contains a gorgeous swimming pool, though out of water since 1907. 3) We have seven pianos on the fifth floor which makes us the sponsors of the First Plane Septet, be to heard commercially next year. This is also testifies to the magnificent structural genius of the pilgrim architects who designed Claverly. 4) Each night we receive, gratis--through our windows, the currents offering of the Hasty Pudding. 5) We boast of the most imposing stairwell in Cambridge, central location, and a room personally decorated by William R. Hearst, Jr.--(a monstrosity, visiting hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CLAVERLY LOBBY | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Artist Baker now lives "in a white house on a green knoll in a beautiful valley" in Hendersonville. N.C.. where, he says, "I work every day in the week and never, never have a day off. I'm in a gorgeous rut." It takes Baker two weeks to complete a TIME cover. He commutes to New York every other Wednesday to deliver a portrait and pick up his next assignment. During the work on a cover, he walks a mile before breakfast and does elaborate calisthenics to combat easel fatigue. The one exercise he hates is mowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...went crazy over the "magical drug." Convinced that it was harmless, he gave it to his patients (one of whom died), pressed it on all his friends (including Martha), and himself took "very small doses of it regularly against depression and . . . indigestion." He wrote a paper describing "the most gorgeous excitement" it aroused in animals, and exulted in the "virility" it aroused in him. "Woe to you, my Princess, when I come," he wrote Martha. "I will kiss you quite red . . . And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Dr. Freud | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...filling as ever, was an example of what Sadler's Wells likes to do best: the full-length romantic ballet in classical style. The ballet chorus, dressed in autumn colors as peasants, in regal purples and crimsons as court maidens, in severe white as swans, made a gorgeous frame for the principal action. Among the brightest spots: Fonteyn's touching pantomime as the bewitched swan-princess and her vicious precision in her alternate role as the magician's wicked daughter; Dancer Somes's hurtling leaps in the court scene; a new "Neapolitan" duet (danced by Julia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sadler's Return | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...closely as the censor would allow. A friend of Mike's is murdered, and the beer-swilling private eye goes barreling off in all directions after the killer. After 90 minutes of mashing the ladies and bashing the men, Mike ends up in the arms of the most gorgeous psychoanalyst (Peggie Castle) who ever used a couch after office hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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