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...telephones and getting a telephone takes from one to three years. Our ad brought us some leads. The first place we saw was on Avenida Atlantica, hanging right over Copacabana Beach. It was perfect-for midgets. The front room was so small you could light the landlady's cigaret (she sat across the room) without getting up. But size was the least drawback. With the apartment-at $225 a month-went the landlady's grandmother. Grandma would use one of the two bedrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Apartment in Rio | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...newcomer to Dublin, Mary treasured a cigaret butt Yeats had thrown away, went to every performance of his plays, watched awestruck as he passed on the street, "strange looking, with dark, sorcerer's eyes." Later, when they became acquainted, she found him rather a snob, affecting the "grand air of a Renaissance prince" and sometimes even failing in "ordinary good manners." But "I never knew a greater mind or a greater man, one with such all-round endowments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sidelong Looks | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...front-row seat. When the Congress rose to applaud at the end of the speech, Harry Truman's grim expression was outdone only by that of New York's Communist-line Representative, Vito Marcantonio. To be different, Little Marc "applauded" by tapping his palm with a cigaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Work & Rest | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Lost, somewhere in Hollywood: Dorothy Lamour's $1,100 cigaret case. Identifying marks: 30 diamonds, 50 rubies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Old Complaint | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Cheering wildly, Czechs in the grandstands threw their silver cigaret lighters to the Austrians. So many gifts of butter, meat, poultry, chocolate and liquor piled in on the Axa Hotel, where the Austrians were staying, that the management turned the lobby into a temporary warehouse. Flags flew in Brno. Pilsen begged the Austrians to visit its best hotel. And in two coal mines of Ostrava, miners promised to work two extra shifts digging coal for Austria. In hockey-happy Czechoslovakia the joke of the week was a cartoon showing a man carrying a bag overflowing with rare food. "Stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Good Will | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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