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The second day's run covered seven towns, a mayor's luncheon and open-air speeches in a drizzling rain, but on the third day Violet was up again bright & early to drive more miles. Once during the day, she hoisted herself on an open truck while an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clem's Chauffeur | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

In A Harlequinade, a hammy theatrical troupe, while rehearsing Romeo and Juliet, encounters all manner of real-life crises, from bigamy to illegitimate children. Faced with such stupendous greasepaint problems as who shall stand where and who shall wear what, the stage folk quickly brush the non-stage problems aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Playlets In Manhattan, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

When a whim gets into big (250 pounds), jolly Congressman Frank Boykin, it sits there gnawing like a boll weevil until he does something about it. Like when he was 16, a poof farm boy, and got the urge to make money. Frank went out, became one of Alabama'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Love Feast | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

The man who lit the blaze is Ryoichi Hattori, 43, a jolly, wavey-haired fellow whom many Japanese jazz composers call sensei (teacher). Hattori teaches chiefly by object lesson: he has written more than 2,000 songs, many of them smash hits. Last week his Aoi Sammyaku (Blue Mountains) headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazzy | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Miss Farmer interviewed researchers, nurses, hospital attendants, superintendents, and others. Leonard found that Memorial's highly effective working laboratory was unspectacular and full of quiet purpose. What he couldn't help remembering, however, were the jolly children in Room 102 L, undergoing treatment for the dread disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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