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Target: Toscanini. Victim of O'Connell's fiercest blast is Conductor Arturo Toscanini. The Maestro seen here is ill-natured, stubborn, suspicious, resentful. The reason for O'Connell's dislike is soon apparent: Toscanini once informed RCA Victor that he would make no records while Director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sour Notes | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

A big, apparently good-natured man with a soft voice, Shahn seems much gentler than his work. To please his wife and three children he lives in a federal housing development in Roosevelt, N.J., and serves as a town councilman. But he is city-bred, and complains that the countryside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Eye | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

First she gets milk from one street vendor, tortillas from another. Then she sets out for the market-La Merced, San Juan, Portales or San Lucas. In the days before inflation, she wandered happily up & down the aisles, stopping to buy 1.50 pesos of meat, 16 centavos of rice, 5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Se | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Something in the Wind (Universal-International) tries desperately, and without success, to make a hepcat out of Deanna Durbin. As a lady disc jockey who breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Another biographer hated by Robert was Ward Hill Lamon, also a Lincoln law partner and later his bodyguard. Lamon was a big, good-natured brawler, whose "office was conveniently located over a saloon, the remainder of the second floor of the building being occupied by a house of assignation."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lincoln-Makers | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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