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...before this I naturally asked for some breaded soft clams on toast. They are truly wonderful. If you are particularly hungry, however, start your dinner with hors d'oeuvre variés, which are really impressive. And if you decide to take soup after the clams, pick a chilled vichyssoise or a cold consomm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Dreams across the Sea | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Impossible Assistants. Elizabeth Arden Graham has made femininity a science, and probably earned more money doing it (an estimated $20 million) than any businesswoman in history. In 78 countries where her powders & perfumes are sold, Elizabeth Arden is a magic name printed diagonally on vari-shaped bottles and boxes. Elizabeth Arden, the woman, is sixtyish, not much over five feet in height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lady's Day in Louisville | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...United Artists), which Technicolors most of the natural phenomena in sight between London and Hollywood, including the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert. Against this setting, young Hindu Cinema Star Sabu, a brown-skinned blend of Mickey Rooney and Jon Hall, snatches food from Arab peddlers, scampers mischievously through vari-hued sultans' palaces, grapples with monsters, summons a towering genie, flies over the top of the world, blows up the Grand Canyon and brings love to the lives of slim, handsome Ahmad (John Justin, now a pilot with the R. A. F.) and the buxom, slant-eyed Princess (June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Latest Labors | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Professor Davis emphasized his contention that explosives were basically benevolent by setting a great many of them off on the back of his hand before his expectant audience. The lecture which was punctuated by frequent, malodorous puffs of vari-colored smoke, was concerned with a short sketch of the various types of explosives, and their uses and development...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explosive Tech Professor Electrifies Chemical Club With Blasting Speech | 4/17/1940 | See Source »

...shells, all from the family of achatinellidae, are vari-colored, in green, yellow, mahogany brown, red-brown, white, black, and striped designs. This family is peculiar to the Hawaiian islands, and is found nowhere else in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAWAIIAN LAND SHELL COLLECTION RECEIVED | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

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