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...name "Marianne" sounds so youthful that maybe some people were as surprised as I to see a lady of some fifty-odd. She didn't even look like a poet. She had a quiet, pale face which looked as if maybe it was a little frightened by the large, black, sawed-off witch's cap she was wearing. There was appropriate white lace at her collar and cuffs...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Morris Gray Readings: Marianne Moore | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

...bustling seventh-floor newsroom of the New York Daily News, a shirt-sleeved copyreader, pale-faced under the fluorescent lights, strove for a headline that would tell a crime story. When he had one that suited him, he flipped it over to the man in the "slot" of the horseshoe-shaped copy desk. It read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Headline Hunters | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...miles and $17,000 to Pale Alto, California, but the Band may be playing there come next September 24 and The Harvard-Stanford football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band May Serenade Stanford in '49 | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

Noting that the New Testament contains no description of Christ's appearance, Devoe insists that it does tell "enough about the manner of his speech and the habits of his days to give us at least the surety that he was not frail, not pale, not piously smirking, not actorishly barbered and finical. He was one who spoke homely and strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Not Frail, Not Pale | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...theater's first personality. The theater's current first lady is a kind of composite of Helen Hayes, Katharine Cornell, Judith Anderson, Lynn Fontanne-and Tallulah. But Tallulah does not fit neatly into a category, and other ladies of the stage, whatever their virtues as actresses, pale beside her as stars pale when a bonfire is lighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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