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...story tells of a young man in a huge toy factory who invents a laughing doll called a flahooley. Then, by rubbing a magic lamp, he conjures up a genie who can turn out flahooleys at will. The genie soon gluts the market and becomes the object of an inflamed and rabid genie hunt, with everybody vainly trying to send him back to his native lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

This is more or less Flahooley's own difficulty. Its magic lamp gets to seem more like a Pandora's box; its story grows as cluttered as a playroom on Christmas night; and a show that should strive for lightness seems to be selling itself by weight. Much of Sammy Fain's music has genuine bounce and swing. But under the handicap of its surroundings, it often suggests the playroom with the radio going. A so-so cast includes Singer Yma Sumac, whose voice spans four octaves. It is Bil & Cora Baird's puppets that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Below these layers they went through a large rockfall to hit glacial gravel of the Pleistocene. After the discovery of a rare hand ax, tension in the deep hole grew as thick as the close air below the cave floor. Then, in the sputtering light of a Coleman lamp, the Iranian workmen disinterred the skeletons of the three prehistoric men who had met sudden death there some 75,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Love & Fertilizer. More frequently sage than sniping, Santayana's mind glows like a lamp, and page after page of Dominations glitters with apt observations caught in its radiant beams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Philosopher's Farewell | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...single ten inch L.P. record includes such numbers as: "I Get Along Without You," "Never Throw a Lighted Lamp at Mother," "Oh Fred," "Tell Them to Stop!," "Wedding Bells," and "It's the Talk of the Town." The records, now on sale at local record stores, were financed by the Dunces from past performances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15 Dunces Record 13 Songs for Trans-Radio | 4/11/1951 | See Source »

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