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Alongside the giant transport planes, a Piper Cub looks like a gnat. A man can lift its tail with one hand, push it over with the other. On a fine summer's day, Cubs rise from the country's fields like a swarm of grasshoppers. Thousands of sportsmen, commuters, and joyriders use them for short hops between town and farm, home and hunting ground. Last week two young instructors from Maryland's College Park Airport proved that these flimsy air flivvers could also circle the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Flivver Flight | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Pied Piper," an original musical production written by Robert L. Ashenhurst '50 and presented by the Phillips Brooks House Radio Hour, will be broadcast over WHRV at 9 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Broadcasts Musical Over WHRV Tonight from Paine Hall | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Shortly, M-G-M will put out Lionel Barrymore's reading of A Christmas Carol, hopes to sell up to 500,000 albums at $3.75; RCA Victor will add eight more albums to its present 43. Among them: Alec Templeton's Pied Piper of Hamelin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Kid Stuff | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...bandsmen are reportedly guarding their big base drum in an unspecified hideout, anticipating a possible Terrier assault, and bagpiper Leigh Cross '51 was practising assiduously as rumors of a B. U. piper filtered in to the Paine Music Building last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Readies Tricks, 'Wintergreen' for B.U. | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

...adjective "delicious." He is all-out for modern art. During the war, Rothenstein packed most of the Tate's treasures off to rural hiding places, then busied himself with the acquisition of over 600 new works, including some by British Modernists Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, John Piper. The gallery was bombed (only six of its 34 rooms are usable now), but attendance has climbed to more than double prewar. Rothenstein realizes that much of what he buys will soon be outdated. His main problem is what to do with yesterday's "moderns." He doesn't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tote's Treat | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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