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...Remember when we were rationing jobs, not butter?" asked Bevan. "There's no need for that now . . . We're putting the pawnshops out of business." Then Bevan asked in a loud stage whisper: "By the way, is that pawnshop still there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Out of the Cupboard | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...point up the lost opportunities. The film begins promisingly with the trumpeter as an unloved, unhappy kid (well played by Orley Lindgren) who first discovers music in a mission house piano and musicians in a nightclub's Negro band, then starts to pour his soul into a pawnshop horn. Grown up into a hot trumpet man under the tutelage of the Negro bandleader (Juano Hernandez), he knocks around gin mills and boardinghouses in the sleazy insecurity which hounds all small-time musicians devoted to an unpopular cult. But just when Trumpeter Douglas begins to approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 27, 1950 | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Levine's newest interests: Byzantine-rich canvases of imaginary kings, handsome studies of generously fleshed women reminiscent of Rubens and Renoir, playful classical allegories. But he is still a city boy. His next big project, he announced, would be a "gigantic" canvas of a pawnshop. Said Levine: "A pawnshop has everything. A pawnshop means something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: City Boy | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

Surprise, Surprise . . . One day last week she knocked down a .22 calibre rifle she had bought in a pawnshop, put it in a suitcase, took all the money she had in the world ($85) out of the bank, and booked a room for three days at the expensive Edgewater Beach Hotel, where the Phillies and Eddie were staying. She told a girl friend mysteriously that by the following night the girl would have all kinds of exciting things to talk about. The next afternoon she and another girl friend saw most of a game in which the Phils beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Silly Honey | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Never Too Late. In Syracuse, N.Y., police found a stolen watch in a pawnshop, then set out to find Samuel Stewart, who had reported it missing 22 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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