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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were a few exceptions-new models, as it were-which caused somewhat the same sensation as if Citroen had brought out a futuristic Kiddie Kar. They were eleven paintings which came straight from the nursery of the villa at Vallauris, where 6y-year-old Picasso and Franchise Gillot, his handsome young mistress, live with their two children, Claude (two) and Paloma (five months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Papa Picasso | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Long Beach's Virginia Amusement Park, after setting a new world's record for flagpole sitting-52 days, 13 hours, and 58 minutes. In San Francisco, Milton ("Shipwreck") Van Nolan, 22, settled himself more firmly in his cowboy saddle on a pole above Horsetrader Ed's Kar Korral, swore he would break Ozzie's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Along Detroit's "Sharpers Row," used-car hub of the U.S., prices skidded as much as 40%. In Chicago, a 1941 Cadillac which would have sold for $2,700 a few months ago was on sale for $2,100. In Los Angeles, Kelley Kar Co., which boasts that it is the biggest used-car dealer in the world, cut prices $200 to $500 a car. In Cleveland, prices were off about 20% and dealers were referring to any 1942 model as "a white elephant." Hardest hit were 1946 models. A few weeks ago they were selling from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: End of a Boom | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Bhupesh Guha & Sushila did not put on such a show as to erase memories of the great Uday Shan-Kar (now running his culture center in India), but their dance program provided a rare opportunity to see real Hindus doing real Hindu dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dances of Hindustan | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Gene Krupa is a serious student of timpanology, an admirer of such virtuosi as Vishnudass Shirali, who has pounded and patted twelve drums for Hindu Dancer Uday Shan-Kar. Also Gene Krupa is, today, where popular musicians like to be when they settle down: in the money. He has his own band which, however conventional its brand of swing, brings in the jitterbugs. "I like to see them go crazy," says Gene Krupa. "I sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Drummer in a Museum | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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