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...pupils gloomy, nervous, inattentive? Does the teacher complain of eyestrain? It may be the classroom's "schoolhouse-brown" paint. Last week New York's public school system, which adopted pastel shades in 1943, announced a sixth tested classroom color combination: peach and rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Color in the Classroom | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Chester Nimitz' charcoal & pastel of a whiskered old Chinese. Title: The Dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sideshow | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...rush business on ostrich-plumed jobs at $65. Chicago's Bes-Ben sold all the floppy, fancy tuscan straws it could turn out at $52.75 and up. "Mmmm, but you'll look delicious," burbled Manhattan's Arnold Constable over a "high-crown cartwheel . . . with pastel blooms encased in spun, sugary net," all for $45. Macy's offered an open-crowned straw loaded with daisies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Fizz & Finery | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

National Government troops in pastel green uniforms shop for meat and vegetables on the streets of Suichung, some 30 miles northeast of the famed Chang Chen (The Great Wall). A Cantonese soldier, who looks everlastingly cold in Manchuria's November weather, carries a bunch of celery under his arm. Another plods across a field where white sheep graze on sparse brown stubble, with a pair of unwrapped pigs' feet dangling in one hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Through the Great Wall | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Twice a week during the two-month session, the young women come to "The Temple of the Harp," Salzedo's pastel-hued, ultra-modernized house, for instruction either from the maestro or from his 32 -year-old American wife. The rest of the time the busy fingers pluck on their Berlioz, Debussy, Saint-Saens lessons-or on the compositions of Salzedo himself. Says the maestro: "Only males can compose. Women, including women harpists, are made to compose babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Women Only | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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