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...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Deep Breath | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Disclaiming abstractionism and surrealism alike, Joan Miro paints gaily-colored fantasies, filled with cavorting, infectiously-jovial organisms, figures in a symbolism which is both intensely personal and completely charming. As a young man, Miro was influenced by the Dadaists, and he has been frequently accepted as a surrealist, although the simplicity and individuality of his idiom far transcends surrealism...

Author: By David T. Hersey, | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/5/1946 | See Source »

Thanks to Howard Bay's sets, it never loses its looks. Jan Clayton (Carousel) proves a winning Magnolia, Colette Lyons an agreeable Ellie, Buddy Ebsen a live dancing personality and Ralph Dumke a jovial Captain Andy. And handsome Carol Bruce, tackling the Bill that made the late Helen Morgan famous, brought down the opening-night house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Manhattan, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Best bets remaining: Canada's shrewd, easy-going Ambassador to Washington, Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, and Norway's jovial, capable Trygve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Statesmen Wanted | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Perhaps the most glaring of these is the radical change in Father O'Malley. In "Going My Way" he was a genial but forceful ecclesiastical troubleshooter who reinforced a sagging church; in the sequel he is transformed into a jovial buffoon guilty of every imaginable blunder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 1/4/1946 | See Source »

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