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Word: yarns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Days; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Mr. Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of an electrical storm. Producer-Adapter-Actor-Magician Welles has blown up Jules Verne's famous yarn into a mammoth burlesque whose 34 scenes spill over the stage into the aisles and, when that won't do, resort to movie shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...Bride Wore Boots (Paramount) is a depressing little example of what can happen to a romantic farce when it is mauled by inept hands. Plainly designed as an airy, sophisticated yarn, the film follows the marital ups & downs of Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Cummings. After seven years of marriage, they are the parents of two healthy, handsome and singularly bad-mannered children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...over a hundred years it has been customary for each textile mill to specialize in a single process only. One mill would spin, another weave, etc. But when Little established Textron's parent company (Special Yarns Corp.) on $10,000 capital in 1923, he had different ideas. He believed that in textile making all stages of manufacture, from yarn to consumer, should be under one management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Textron's Trick | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Today, Textron is integrated from raw yarn to finished product; it covers the field of house furnishings and clothing, employs its own designers, chooses its own retail outlets. And Little talks about a $100 million gross next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Textron's Trick | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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