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...writes, "D'Artagnan gives up skewering his enemies to settle down in the country with a seamstress at the court (June Allyson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Artagnan gives up skewering his enemies to settle down in the country with a seamstress at the court (June Allyson). He might have done well to take along his manservant (Keenan Wynn), whose comic talents occasionally save Musketeers from the doldrums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Said a Paris seamstress: "The Marshall Plan means one thing to me-tout simplement, a chance to go back to a civilized life. I mean enough bread, a decent house, a decent school for one's children and a chance to feel oneself surrounded by honesty and plenty of smiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Dawn | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Togliatti is married to Rita Montagnana, a former seamstress, who leads Italy's Communist women and is a loyal party workhorse. She is a big, handsome, white-haired, brown-eyed woman. The Togliattis live in the sumptuous residence of a former Fascist minister, but use only a few rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Cast Anchor! At the age of 14, Madame Guillet treated her first patient. It was her mother's seamstress, an anemic, timid and depressed creature. "After three or four readings of vigorous poetry," Madame Guillet said, "she became so cocky I could hardly bear her company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In a High Wind | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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