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...Manhattan, a pair of new, tailor-made doors were packed off to the slim & sporty Maharaja of Indore at his air-conditioned palace. The doors (covered with jewel-like paintings in the Persian manner) were made of aluminum, stood eleven feet high, were large enough for the Maharaja to ride a horse through comfortably, if he's ever in the mood...

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

...Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Variations on a theme by James Thurber, featuring Danny Kaye, some home-grown harridans, some international jewel thieves, and some elegantly kidded daydreams (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Secret Life of Walter Mltty. Variations on a theme by James Thurber, featuring Danny Kaye, some home-grown harridans, some international jewel thieves, and some elegantly kidded daydreams (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 25, 1947 | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...soon turns out that he is white-collar-deep in a mess of international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 18, 1947 | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...buccaneering 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Besides portraits of courtiers, there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering a locket against a background of flames. Their flesh tones had faded, but they still shone with immaculate drawing, clean, jewel-like color, and a fine use of lace and ornament to produce a sharp, flat pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Limner to the Queen | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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