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With those wistful words, Mary Martin keynotes another wistful week of revivals and reissues in pop records. Mary stars in a revival of Babes in Arms (Columbia, 2 sides LP), with its spray of winsome songs by Rodgers and Hart (Where or When, My Funny Valentine, Johnny One Note). Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

As he headed West last week to speak at a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Portland, Ore., Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson suddenly looked, to wistful brigades of Administration Democrats, like a presidential candidate all over again. He was not only on the ballot in Oregon, but he was traveling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: No, No, No | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

Your April 7 cover story on her is, admirably, written along the same lines that make up her personality and character-slightly wistful, clearly understood, beautiful and earnest in their simplicity. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

As the limpid moon ascends majestically to her zenith, to the wistful baying of the tethered hound; as the last stately ice floe drifts sedately between the burgeoning shores of the historic Charles, then indeed is the voice of the turtle heard in the land.

Author: By Peter J. Lorand, | Title: 1952 Female Fashions Run Hog-Wild | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

Whenever someone asks him why he switched from advertising to painting, he just says, "Because I like it." It is fellows like Flannery who keep admen feeling wistful.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ex-Huckster at the Races | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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