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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Mrs. Roger Horan had life by the tail. Everybody said she looked like Linda Darnell-and she did. Everybody said her three children were bright and beautiful. They were. Her pin-clean apartment in ugly, teeming Astoria, across the East River from Upper Manhattan, was not so bad, considering the housing pinch. And her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Thin Man | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Here's a picture of Roger," Mrs. Horan said, warmly. "He's only 27. He used to be an accountant, and he was a photographer's model when he was 14. I don't know why he wanted to join the police force," she added. "But then he always hated that inside work, and he loves to listen to detective and quiz programs. We bet on them. He owes me a black slip with lace." Mrs. Horan flushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Thin Man | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti says, "is very musical and neurotic like all of us in the house." The dog has a preference for the works of Ravel and Debussy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unblessed by the Met | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Fibber McGee's cluttered closet is one of the best known. NBC's Tom Horan of Chicago invented it. He used a set of studio chairs resembling a back stoop, piled each step high with old shoes, bowling pins, tennis rackets, bird cages, roller skates, broken dishes and iron scraps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bells & Whistles | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Christmas comes at the beginning of the Southern Hemisphere's summer for Holland McCombs and Jane Braga in Rio, for Hal Horan and Kurt Steinfeld in Buenos Aires, for William Chickering in Australia, for Hart Preston and Bob Landry in South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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