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...story of her harum-scarum voyage, well and engagingly told, was first published in England in 1939, but smothered by the war along with other travel books by leisurely private adventurers. If armchair circumnavigators are now willing to knock about under sail without even wireless aboard, much less radar, the Cap Pilar is their craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Sails Crowding | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...heart of the CRIMSON, to hear a news board man tell it, is the harum scarum band of ragamuffins who make it their business to know what is going on around the University and associated institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pretzel Bending Limbers Aspirants In Tonight's Competition Inaugural | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

...Army and the press rushed in. What went on was hastily reported at the time, but not so frankly and fully as three newsmen told it in books out last week.* Though the authors may not have intended them to be, their accounts are a revealing documentation of the harum-scarum behavior of the press under stress. "The whole thing," wrote Cornelius Ryan (then of the London Telegraph, now of TIME), "was a cross between a Marx Brothers movie, Hellzapoppin and an Irish wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hold It, Tojo | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Lady of Quality; 1899-Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum, Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower; 1901-Winston Churchill's* The Crisis; 1902-Owen Wister's The Virginian, Alice Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Backward Glance | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...whale to Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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