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...last postwar era had been the sack dress and cloche hat of the '20s. The trademarks of 1946 were elegance and variety; anything was in high fashion, so long as it had a splendid look. (One Manhattan store, with perfect justification, used a reproduction of John Singer Sargeant's 1884 Portrait of Madame X as an index to current style.) While the thrill lasted, U.S. women were going to be taken out and admired-if their husbands could find a tuxedo, that...
TIME publishes below extracts from three widely different reports from recent visitors to Europe. TIME & LIFE'S Winthrop Sargeant, who is primarily a cultural reporter, looked for signs of life in the arts, and found some. Paul Hutchinson, managing editor of the Christian Century (whose full report is published in the Century this week) found a political and spiritual bankruptcy, which, in a despairing mood, he pronounced incurable. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, the leading U.S. Protestant theologian (whose article appears in LIFE this week), is also gravely concerned over Europe's chances of survival, but after a realistic analysis...
...circles so vindictive that modern gang wars seem gentle in comparison. One slighted poetess misused a key to his room, read his private papers each day, quizzed the wives of poets to get material for troublemaking among them. The one delightful and wise woman among the poetesses - Mrs. Frances Sargeant Osgood - was Griswold's friend. She wrote Griswold this acrostic...
...most important member of the team is Writer Winthrop Sargeant, who has been something of a musical prodigy ever since, at the age of ten, he conducted the People's Symphony of San Francisco through his own composition, A Legend of the Black Forest. For nine years he was violinist in front rank symphony orchestras conducted by Toscanini, Rodzinski, Bruno Walter and Walter Damrosch-but by contrast he has also played in hotel dance bands and in the pit of burlesque and movie houses. He studied for two years in Paris and Vienna-worked on the scores of several...
What makes him a three-letter man is that, besides all his knowledge of both classical and popular music, Sargeant is also a journalist. He worked for three years on New York newspapers, for a year as Music Editor of International News Service. He has contributed to The Saturday Evening Post, The Nation, The American Mercury, The Musical Quarterly and Theater Arts. And he is the author of the first authoritative analysis of America's own "musical language"-Jazz, Hot and Hybrid...