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There was Giovanni Boldini's wispy Duchess of Marlborough propped stiffly on her spindly divan; Whistler had caught bewhiskered Theodore Duret wistfully holding a lady's opera cape in some carpeted corridor. And William M. Chase had come upon the bemonocled Whistler sporting an absurd little cane and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Reluctant Chronicler | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Nightmarish Scenario. There were thin patches of silver, lining: i) Malan is fiercely antiCommunist, hates Soviet Russia even more than he hates Britain; 2) with a slim working majority in a time of world crisis, he may feel impelled, for a while at least, to go slow. But literate Britons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: These Things Happen | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

In the past 25 years, McHugh has written over 500 successful songs, and he is still at it. At 53, his bald pate fringed with wispy grey hair, Jimmy looks like a well-fed friar. But he talks like a bobbysoxer. "In this business," says he, "you gotta stay contemporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Stay Contemporary | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Next day 70 kids went on strike, parading in front of the school with large posters demanding that the school board resign. Parents begged them to stop. Wispy Miss Inez Wallace, the school principal, stood in the doorway frantically ringing her school bell. The kids ignored both parents and principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Walkout in Texas | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

For a full 24 hours gold-spectacled merchants, sheep-faced bumpkins from the farmyards, wispy old ladies and hot-eyed, big-bosomed Neapolitan beauties pushed and stampeded through the door of Naples' cathedral, where the Madonna di Pompeii had been raised on an altar surrounded by the reddest roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Age of Love | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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