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Madame Butterfly was having its first showing since the Met packed it away in mothballs after Pearl Harbor, afraid that the public would resent watching B. F. Pinkerton, Lieutenant, U.S.N., caddishly deceive the Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San. Puccini's Pinkerton still sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Poor Butterfly | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Madame Butterfly hopefully braced herself for a comeback after wartime internment. With Lieut. Pinkerton she would make her postwar debut this week at the Metropolitan Opera, which tolerated her last in November 1941, then discreetly dropped...

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

ROBERT N. PINKERTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...Washington reporter's two-year crusade has begun to pay off. Scheduled to go on trial shortly in the District of Columbia are 34 persons already indicted for sedition. A dogged Pinkerton-minded reporter had a big hand in bringing them to book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sherlock Stokes | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...Homestead steelworkers' strike of 1892 inspired Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men. And Du Maurier's romantic novel sensation of 1894 brought forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: History in Doggerel | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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