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Here & there, the trained seals were dragging their flippers. A Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter refused to let his byline be put on his MacArthur story. On the Los Angeles Examiner, a wag cracked : "MacArthur will wade ashore at San Simeon when he comes home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Booby-Trapped? | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Onstage, Kay, her blonde hair brushed severely back, looks about 30, but owns to 35. One Hollywood wag says she "has a young face made up of old materials." Says she of her act: "I always wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dizzy-Making | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...master, an original painter, a great calligraphist, an experimenter in winemaking, an engineer, a hater of puritanism, a yogi, a Buddhist believer, a Confucian statesman, a secretary to the emperor, a confirmed winebibber, a humane judge, a dissenter in politics, a prowler in the moonlight, a poet and a wag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unaffected Great Man | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...Party Congress in Nice, splashed like hundreds of others in the sea. As the Paris art season opened, Modernist Painter Man Ray's Le Beau Temps (Fair Weather) caused a mild buzz. A world congress of magicians bemused the Paris public in acts-one of which, said a wag, should be called the comrade and the fellow traveler. On Montmartre the celebration of the grape harvest turned into a fancy dress carnival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tremors | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...believe that those who can count more dogs among their friends than cats," wrote Actor James Mason in a felicitous thesis for the New York Times, "lean more also toward doglike characteristics in their human friends. They like hearty extraverts and children-people, in fact, who wag their tails and bark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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