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...whirled around Washington at a dizzy pace. Not once, but twice, he tootled off to the National Gallery of Art to inspect the famed collection of German paintings (see ART). With Mrs. Truman and Margaret, he took in the premiere of a new movie, State of the Union, at Loew's Capitol. He went to the Gridiron Club's spring dinner at the Statler, where he made a speech and sat through a couple of hours of heavy-handed lampoonery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: On the Town | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Carnegie Hall, an audience that had come to watch a demonstration of hypnosis got more than it bargained for. The star attraction, Franz Polgar, was illustrating his powers on a dark-haired young woman when he was interrupted by shouted challenges from rival Hypnotist Ralph Slater (who performs in Loew's neighborhood theaters). Ushers rushed back & forth trying to restore quiet, but the meeting ended in uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Svengali Influence | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Week's 1947 Price- Closing Earning Earnings Stock Price per Share Ratio American Can $78¼ $8 9.8 American Smelting 51½ 12 4.3 Chrysler 58¼ 7.50 7.8 General Motors 51¼ 6.70 8.1 Goodyear Tire 42 12 3.5 Loew's Inc. 16¼ 2.75 5.9 Sears, Roebuck 34⅛ 4.75 7.2 Standard Oil (N.J.) 70 10 7 Texas Co. 54½ 7.50 7.3 U.S. Steel 73½ 12.50 5.9 Westinghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: What's a Bargain? | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Their leader, Leonard de Paur, 34, is a stocky, scholarly looking Negro who, at 18, toured Loew's circuit clutching a battered straw hat and singing Ol' Man River. A friend introduced him to Hall Johnson, who had just scored his Green Pastures success. De Paur got most of his choral training as a singer and assistant conductor of the Hall Johnson Choir before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beware of Pretty Chords | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Loew's State Theater, one of the last strongholds of oldtime four-a-day vaudeville, announced that it was switching to double features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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