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The instant I felt it I wanted to own it." With her new-found knowledge Peggy opened a gallery in London, cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." Among her first exhibitors were Arp ("He served me break fast every morning"), Kandinsky ("So jolly and charming, with a horrid wife"), and Yves Tanguy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Temptations of Peggy | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Harlem-born Philippa, a mulatto, is a pretty girl who reads Nietzsche, Flaubert and Dostoevsky. She likes to play chess against herself (to a skeptical reporter who asked how it could be done, she replied: "Maybe I'm a schizophrenic"). At six she gave recitals of her own compositions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Original Girl | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

At the Front. Jolly, dapper Sir Stewart, 48, has kept an eye on Britain's eye troubles since he matriculated at St. Andrews University in 1915. He won high favor with Downing Street circles in 1932 when he saved Fellow Scotsman Ramsay MacDonald from blindness, with two delicate operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: King's Eye Man | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

A couple of hours after these outbursts, Bevin went to a party at the Soviet Embassy. Jolly as a rumpled, just-fed bear, he backslapped Vishinsky and horsed him around for the photographers. Vishinsky loved it; never was there a more eloquent manifestation of that everpresent, always-pathetic Russian longing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNO: It May Work | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Lady Astor, 66, walked down a tiny fruit steamer's gangplank into a stage-idol's welcome in Manhattan, gave swarming reporters and cameramen a performance to remember. Wrapped in mink and hung with diamond-&-sapphire earrings, she got For She's a Jolly Good Fellow from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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