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...cause of it all was brand new linoleum, slick as ice. The auditorium manager promised to sand it thoroughly before the next performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bottoms Up | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Corpse on the Linoleum. All during his adolescence Beaton kept snapping Kodak pictures of his Mummie and his two sisters. At Harrow, he found a willing subject in a schoolmate, and posed him, early one morning, half nude in the headmaster's garden. The headmaster's wife witnessed the scene, and Beaton took no more neoclassic pictures at Harrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Click | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Beaton did. Soon he had his first show (full of such surrealisms as the famous photograph of Edith Sitwell-as a corpse on a strip of linoleum), and became notorious overnight as the wild man of British photography. In a few years puckish Cecil had captivated a good share of the rich society-photography trade in New York as well as in London, and had published a book of his photographs. One of Cecil's subjects, Lady Cunard, was so displeased with the book that she set her copy afire in the midst of a luncheon party, then seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Click | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...Raised the percentage of steel that producers must set aside for defense, in some cases to 35%, limited the use of tungsten as a coloring agent in linoleum, ink, rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Another Bite | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...window and a real wood-burning fireplace. Upstairs was an expansion attic ("You have the joy of finishing the second floor yourself"). The master bedroom was a barnlike 10 ft. by 11½. Each front door was flanked by the advertised "shrubbery"-two arborvitae bushes. All the floors were linoleum-covered, all the walls were plywood, and all the lumber was green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lower Suburbia | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

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