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...Manhat tan to receive his $2,500 first prize in Pepsi-Cola's Portrait of America painting contest, first business-sponsored art competition to be judged by prominent artists and esthetes (including Rockwell Kent, Fernand Leger, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh, Max Weber). Peirce's prizewinner: a radiant Maine Swimming Hole. Peirce's comment: "I've already spent the money. ... I like Pepsi-Cola with rum in it.... Now maybe I'll even drink some straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 31, 1944 | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...colors more radiant in autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1944 | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Thames, there was sculling as usual. At the Royal Horticultural Society's flower show in Westminster, a new iris called "Radiant" aroused much interest in its light apricot and crimson-bronze shadings. London's hordes of strangers in uniform thinned out. Londoners felt that they were at last getting back their own town. It was even possible to get a restaurant table without advance booking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Each Man to 'is Post | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Most of the guests ate buffet style. But in a small back room the Molotovs sat with Harriman and his daughter Kathy, radiant in a long Alice blue gown; Clark Kerr and Alexander Korneichuk and his wife, Wanda Wasilewska, in a black silk skirt topped by a smart white lame jacket. When asked about Polish relations, Korneichuk, the new Foreign Commissar for the Ukraine, spoke charmingly about plans for rebuilding Kiev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: AMONG THOSE PRESENT | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...life; its emotional overtones are out of all proportion to its literal story. Last week's production had its merits: a fluent translation, good pace, no mistaken striving after Russian "soulfulness." But the indispensable merit of tone it did not have. It failed to make little scenes radiant or heartbreaking; it played for laughs; it turned minor roles into blatant character parts. Chekhov-lovers had seen a more poignant Cherry Orchard years ago, when Eva LeGallienne staged it and warm, volatile, Slavic Alia Nazimova played the central role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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