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...quite primitive as satire, and rather shameless (three of those phone calls to President Truman that are beginning to outnumber, on Broadway, the old Eleanor Roosevelt gags), but it is breezy and good-natured. George Abbott's direction is pleasantly breezy too; and Jerome Robbins' light and stylish dances provide an airy contrast to Miss Merman's earthy charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 23, 1950 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...Scotland's stylish Perth Hunt Races, Princess Margaret, playing no favorites, appeared with two escorts, both "friendly rivals" for her hand: tweedy, kilted Lord Ogilvy, 24, son of the Earl of Airlie; and the Earl of Dalkeith, 27, heir of the Duke of Buccleuch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...star? Watching the play of a pink-faced, cowlicked 16-year-old last week, Davis Cup Selection Committee Chairman James H. Bishop thought he had found the answer. As Hamilton Farrar ("Ham") Richardson of Baton Rouge, La. went about winning the National Junior championship with one of the most stylish all-court games seen this year, Jim Bishop pronounced him "the best [tennis] prospect in a quarter of a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Prospect | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...result was a one-act opera as stylish, Steinish, charming and listenable as any summer audience could want to hear. Composer Kupferman had picked Author Stein's In a Garden (from The First Reader & Three Plays) for the libretto of his first opera. The story was sweet and simple-and so was the artfully naive music that went with it. A little girl (pertly played and sung by pretty 21-year-old Soprano Sylvia Stahlman) plays she is a queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Be a Queen | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

While growing, it expanded into high-style lines for such swank stores as Dallas' own Neiman-Marcus, and into specialties like the stylish maternity gowns made by Dallas' Page Boy (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948). One big Dallas maker, Justin McCarty, Inc., rang up $2,500,000 in 1949 sales with sportswear items. But nothing in Dallas had grown quite as fantastically as Nardis Sportswear, run by high-pressured little Bernard L. Gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: High, Wide & Texan | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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