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Their style is a draggy, lush melodic line trimmed with Elliot's piano solos. For sugar-spinning, the band has a symphonic wind section (bassoon, oboe, French horn, English horn and clarinet) which Elliot calls a Woodwindtette. Says he: "We're trying to get more classical sounds. That way we get a sort of purple mood. Overseas the kids loved wild razzmatazz. But now they're back, they want sweet music. They just want to put their arm around their gal friend and romance slowly. Let's not kid ourselves, that's why they like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple Moodmaker | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...pretty nearly did. He made soybean gearshift nobs, horn buttons, accelerator pedals-and even experimental bodies. But if soybean plastics were strong, they were also expensive; cheaper plastics were just as good or better. So last week young Henry Ford II pruned out the last of the soybean projects. Having converted two soybean-processing divisions to other work, Ford's sold a third plant, at Saline, Mich., to Soybrands, Inc. The selling price was secret, but it was no secret that the soybean era at Ford's had ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Farewell to Soybeans | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...crowd. The air and day were just right, he decided, and felt again the same old sense of excitement run through him. He looked at his watch again. Ten-five; two hours and ten minutes before he was to meet his date. Vag narrowly avoided careening into two horn-rimmed students standing in front of Sever, and looked briefly at a pair of Radcliffe legs on their way into Emerson. Two hours. Time to pick up the makings of the after-game party, shave, and get the room into shape. He hoped vaguely that the biddies would have finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/26/1946 | See Source »

Boasting a mysterious Tiffany plate in the running board, Appleby's car has a ga-goo-gah type horn that inspires the awe of fellow motorists. "There's no glowering as you go by," he affirms, "only smiles...

Author: By Paul Back, | Title: Horseless Carriages Back to Spew Flame on Carless Postwar World | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

...luxurious liner comes equipped with a locked cabinet in the back seat for spirits, "an overgrown burp" of a horn that does not command what the owner deems proper respect, and eight tires he hopes will see him through the winter...

Author: By Paul Back, | Title: Horseless Carriages Back to Spew Flame on Carless Postwar World | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

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