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Clio, the Muse of History (for it was she), looked up, her finger on her lips. "Shh!" she said, "the Big Three Conference is just ending down there. What with security regulations, censorship and personal secretiveness, the only way I can find out anything these days is by peeping. And who are you?" she asked, squinting slightly (history is sometimes a little shortsighted). "I've seen you somewhere before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GHOSTS ON THE ROOF | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire was auctioned for 10,000 guineas, then a record price. For almost a century each successive Christie sale was described as "the greatest this country has ever seen." Christie's privately sold Gainsborough's Blue Boy and Reynolds' Tragic Muse for ?200,000 to California's Huntington Collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: What Am I Offered? | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Students whose consistent Saturday stadium allocations in the colonnade have led them to muse on "the lucky coaches who get the best seats in the house for every Crimson football game" can stop their griping as far as Varsity end mentor Harry Jacunski is concerned...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Erstwhile Green Bay End Jacunski Scouts and Coaches for the Crimson | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...film may annoy those who do not thoroughly enjoy "swinging" everything in sight. It is also mildly dismaying to see that when the Muse of Dancing is really being herself, in her own ballet sequence, she can't even get up on her points. Put after all, Down to Earth is a musical, and musicals are forgiven almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Franco Mele, one of Rome's leading night club pianists, was struck to the core by the persuasive lilt of Burrier's song, and when $35 and a carton of American cigarettes was added to the call of the muse, he made a 9 piece arrangement of "Lost Without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night in Rome Plus Girl Back Home Still Leaves Music Publishers Frigid | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

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