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...night's program will begin at 8 o'clock with a lecture by Lawrence H. Adler, of Indiana University, who will speak on "What Makes the Stars Shine?" Then, if the weather permits, guests will be able to look at the stars through telescopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory to Begin Open Nights July 28 | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

Youngsters may be puzzled by Ruth Etting's unsubtle singing of the old songs she made famous (Ten Cents a Dance, Love Me or Leave Me, Shine On, Harvest Moon). Her straightforward style is a far cry from the slick and silken whisperings of the younger generation's favorite song pluggers. But to their parents and their uncles and their aunts, Ruth Etting is still an item, as she proved in a comeback last March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Harvest Moon | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...least four Roosevelts--Theodore the younger, Kermit, John, James--as well as University presidents Lowell and Conant have been on speaking terms with the proprietor of the shine parlor-newsstand strategically set on Massachusetts Avenue opposite Widener's back door. Felix Caragianes is not the commonplace sort of man you would expect to find commanding a battery of bootblacks: in the wide grin behind his horn-rimmed spectacles there is a contagious adolescent exuberance which has put the purchase of a morning paper on a personal basis for a generation of the Harvard community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

...world has yet to produce a great woman composer. But some of today's most brilliant and brilliantined names in music went to a dame school to get their shine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Boulanger | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

According to the shoe-shine boy at Felix' Shoe-Shine Spa, tips come in all sizes, "from the large to the small, small economy size." Meanwhile, mecca for the penurious continues to be the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria, where a bright yellow sign, with big red letters, declares, "No Tipping, Please...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Waitresses, Hack Drivers, Bootblacks, Barbers Term College Students 'Cheapskates' | 3/20/1947 | See Source »

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