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Life became even more exciting when Byron met Margarita Cogni, La Fornarina (the Little Oven), "a fierce product of Venetian slums and backways." Marianna tried to 'defend her prior rights against Margarita, but was crushed by superior logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Dark Tower | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Spooky shot: inquisitive Albert, opening the immense Dutch oven which, the last time he looked, held Miss Fiske's valuables, finds it neatly bricked in, thus revealing to the audience the whereabouts of Miss Fiske's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Brooding over a fancied insult in connection with the order, Marie got a razor, slashed the Black Boy from its frame, toted it, with the other two pictures, to the Hampton Bays estate. There she built a fire in an outdoor oven, burned the Black Boy and Charles the Bold to a crisp, scattered the half-charred remains of the Wayfarer on the beach, where the tides of Shinnecock Bay soon swallowed them. The Black Boy was insured for $25,000, the other two for $19,000. Last week, recovering from a suicide attempt in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: End of the Black Boy | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...over. In Monday's thriller a gust of wind which threw a tired Tech crew out of kilter for a moment was responsible for the Crimson's winning margin of three feet, and in the final race of last year the distance between the M.I.T and Harvard bows was oven less...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: SHAKE-UPS, UPSETS KEEP HAINES GUESSING ABOUT FIRST FIFTIES | 5/2/1941 | See Source »

...Many a gourmet and amateur cook has stubbornly maintained that no souffle lit to eat can be turned out without the proper French oven ware. For them, the fall of France was a calamity because French ware was fragile and subject to constant replacement. As Czecho-Slovakia, the Low Countries, Sweden and Italy were consecutively blocked out, U. S. manufacturers found themselves with all but a fraction (Great Britain's) of the $100,000,000 U. S. pottery and china market on their hands. They were geared to supply two-thirds of it, no more. Last week they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Blockade Benison | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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