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...Rainbow girls who took part last night in the opening of the Massachusetts grand assembly of the order of the Rainbow for Girls at the New England Conservatory of Music. Left to right, Dorothy Cashen of Saugus, grand hope; Lorraine Richardson of Taunton, grand charity, Helen Nelson of Reading, grand worthy adviser; Barbara Allen of Somerville, grand worthy associate adviser, and Barbara Tewksbury of Winthrop, grand faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...Saks-Fifth Avenue's Sidney Ring, with the help of a free-lance designer named Helen Watkins, found a new use for spaghetti. Designers Ring and Watkins got a huge assortment of spaghetti, far-falle, gnocchetti, scungilli and other uncooked Italian pasta, dyed it all colors of the rainbow and pasted it on the background of their windows in flower-like and treelike festoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Along the Avenue | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Quiz the Scientist pays listeners $1 for every question used, receives on the average about 80 a week. Typical query last week: Does a heavy weight drop faster than a light one? Other queries: What makes grass green? What causes the rainbow? What makes the sky blue? Not entirely academic, Quiz the Scientist has included tips from Dr. Kelley for housewives. Not long ago, she told how to clean silverware by using a 10? pie plate made out of tin. By putting the tin plate in a larger aluminum pan and adding warm salt water and soda, the silverware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bright Quiz | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

Rose has not been forced to relinquish it entirely. Showman Todd has at least forced him to share it. Last week in Chicago, Showman Todd opened the biggest theatre-restaurant ever, Michael Todd's Theatre-Cafe, in the old Rainbow Ballroom which housed the high-priced French Casino during the Chicago World's Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mantle of Barnum | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin Roosevelt. At Cocos the President fishes, yarns gleefully about such plunder as he himself once dug for at another famous trove on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Other items in Wilkins' index of rainbow ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hordes After Hoards | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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