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...Pearl of the Far East remained embedded in its chilly Siberian oyster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Cultured Pearl | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...story: an oyster-bar waitress (Deanna) yearns for a stage career and dupes an eminent actor (Laughton) into signing a letter of recommendation while he is engrossed in an oyster stew. Eventually she is enfolded in the arms of handsome Playwright Tone. Among the intervening spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Roosevelt was recognized, Democrat or Republican, Hyde Park or Oyster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...five years in service with combat duty off Okinawa and an assignment to the Naval War College at Newport, changed his mind about making the Navy a career and got his discharge. He announced the purchase of a country house in Republican-voting Woodbury, L.I., not far from the Oyster Bay stamping ground of the other (Theodore) Roosevelts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Politics | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...Wittiamsburg is a 14-year-old, twin-screw, diesel-powered ocean yacht once known as the Aras and owned by Maine Paper Manufacturer Hugh J. Chisholm. President Truman will have two double staterooms on the boat deck. One will have gold draperies, oyster-white leather chairs, blue walls; the other will be done in beige and green. There will be peach carpeting in the lounge, beige in the messroom. The presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: U. S. S. Williamsburg | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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