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...TIME researcher works like a mental filter for her editor-writers- each week sifts through thousands of words of basic material. She constantly turns up unsuspected angles, significant bits of history, piquant, enlightening facts. And then, after the story is written, she checks every word of it for accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 13, 1942 | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Bombay's movie fanpaper, Film-India, Editor Baburao Patel conducts an unusually piquant question-&-answer department. Last week Hollywood learned how Editor Patel does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Such A Thing | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Born. To Margaret Sullavan, blonde, piquant film actress, and Theatrical Agent Leland Hayward: their third child, a son (8 lb.); in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 7, 1941 | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly of the 5th Fighting Squadron, U. S. Naval Air Corps (aboard the carrier Lexington). He joined Britain's Fleet Air Arm last year, served on the carriers Argus, Furious, Glorious (sunk at Narvik). Most piquant Eagle name: Harry La Guardia of Hartford, Conn. (no kin to New York City's Mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Eagles for Britain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...piquant and pungent as paprika is the music of Béla Bartók, Hungary's highest-browed composer. During the past fortnight, with the U. S. musical season well along in the salad course, many a concert program was well sprinkled with Bartók. Diffident, wispy, grey, Béla Bartók himself was visiting the U. S., for the second time in his 59 years, looking unlike the way his severe works sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer Bart | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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