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...bright spot of the first program (none too bright despite the high-octane foolishness of guest star Bob Hope) was Evelyn's choice phrasing of The Toorie on His Bonnet, Her mink-soft voice is as calculatedly intimate as a dropped shoulder strap. But voice, as many a supper-clubman knows, isn't the half of Evelyn. The rest is the allure which she exudes as unfailingly as a perfume factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Evelyn's Costly Consonants | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Hope for Strap-Hangers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Woes Fewer, States Dean Watson | 2/7/1947 | See Source »

...that infraction, even though school authorities had been warned of his condition, Anthony Lombardi was stripped, tied down and beaten three times with a broad leather strap. When he complained that he was sick again, nobody believed him. But last week he was under an oxygen tent in Colorado General Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO,MICHIGAN: Crime & Punishment | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...eight years old Benjamin Britten revealed his unorthodox musical behavior by writing an angry song to be sung by God. He wrote a U.S. operetta named Paul Bunyan which got no place. At Tanglewood he glumly watched rehearsals wearing a pearl-grey jacket, a yellow tie and strap sandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Music | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...They begun to strap me in the chair, and everything begun to look dazey . . . It was like the white folks watching was in a big swing, and they'd swing away and back and then right up close. When they put the black bag over my head, I was all locked up . . . with loud thinkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Black Is the Color . . . | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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