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Word: minding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Criminal Mind. In Cleveland, the burglars who broke into the Cowles Bakery brewed themselves coffee, sampled the cake, washed up the dishes and made off with two recipe books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...studio as neat as a laboratory. There are no still lifes and no models in sight, because he never paints directly from nature. "I discover my picture on the canvas the way a fortuneteller reads the future in tea leaves," he explains. "I never visualize a picture in my mind before starting to paint. On the contrary I believe that a picture is finished only after one has completely effaced the idea that was there at the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: House Painter's Son | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...incident that changed her whole outlook occurred one day when she read the lips of a woman who was saying to a group of people: "Never mind Marie- she's deaf." Suddenly Marie realized that for years she had been kidding herself and giving way to a form of vanity that made her refuse to face facts. Soon afterwards she got herself a hearing aid. With it, she got a new life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Never Mind Marie | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...quartet Little Louis was a tenor, but his ambition in 1913 was to sing bass. His change of mind began one New Year's Eve, when he was twelve. To celebrate, he had hauled his father's old .38 revolver out to the street and fired it off. He was picked up and taken to juvenile court where, he remembers, the magistrate told him that while he wasn't a bad boy he might get to be one if he kept playing around Perdido Street at night. Louis was packed off to ihe Colored Waif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh's only morning paper, was scooped on the story by the two afternoon papers, but it really didn't mind; it wanted the publicity. The story: the Post-Gazette was planning to start a Sunday edition next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Race in Pittsburgh | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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