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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constantly combs over the styles of the last 5,000 years. One of her most fertile hunting grounds is the Brooklyn Museum, which she likes because it lets her take costumes back to her shop for copying. This year it supplied the inspiration for a woman's suit jacket copied from a man's hunting coat, and 15 dresses and a blouse with a filmy, peekaboo look, copied from a 75-year-old camisole. Sophie is well aware of the limitations of her art, and that styles run in amazingly regular cycles.* The trick is timing: to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Counter-Revolution | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...turn out hit tunes, his song Whispering Grass was having great success in this country, later becoming a World War II hit in Great Britain and the Continent. And at the same time of his illness, he had the top hit song in England, She Wore a Little Jacket of Blue, for which he received the ASCAP award for the top song in that country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...lecturer, a short, thickset man with a ruddy face and a big voice, was coming to the end of his talk. Gathering up his notes and books, he tucked his hornrimmed spectacles into the pocket of his tweed jacket and picked up his mortarboard. Still talking-to the accompaniment of occasional appreciative laughs and squeals from his audience-he leaned over to return the watch he had borrowed from a student in the front row. As he ended his final sentence, he stepped off the platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Don v. Devil | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), husky youngster, not quite 23 years old, paced the floor of his study in the Bucharest palace. Occasionally he stopped to finger the button which led to a concealed Dictaphone. His loose tweed jacket and baggy grey flannel trousers, his light colored eyes and curly brown hair, made him seem younger than he actually was. But he had made his first -and perhaps his last-big decision as King of Rumania. Now he was about to take the big gamble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Take Him Away | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Free-Thinking Communists. The mayor himself is ensconced next door, in what used to be Pope Clement VII's study. For the summer, Fabiani has abandoned the prevalent Communist fashion (dark double-breasted suit) for an open sport shirt and a light linen jacket. Though only 35, he is a veteran Communist. Nine years in Fascist jails have shrunk his face, left his eyes deepset in sallow sockets. His line is conciliation: "If we Communists were in power in Italy today, we would not destroy private property. Private property has its function to fulfill in Italy for years & years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Antagonist's Face | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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