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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who waits long enough in the Harvard Square station of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's system will see one of the MTA's "new" trains. It has a coat of shining orange paint, fan ventilators and padded seats; but underneath is the outmoded hulk of a 1926 transit car model. In general, that's what is wrong with the entire MTA set-up--it is only a veneer, covering up but not eliminating the financial structure of the Boston Elevated Railway Company that it replaced...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Brass Tacks | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

...Abner, Santa Claus, an Easter bunny, Father Time and Rosie O'Grady. He has made entrances by dog sled, donkey, horse chariot, kiddie car and parachute. He often coaxes the unexpected out of his guest stars: Gracie Fields sang for him in a bathing suit, and the Metropolitan's Tenor Lauritz Melchior in blackface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Child Wonder | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...ranging from the serene and classic to the troubled and modern, they have gone more & more over the last ten years to the best U.S. company, Ballet Theatre. Last week, after starving for a season while Director-Dancer Lucia Chase hunted up angels, Manhattan ballet fans packed into the Metropolitan Opera House for an opening-night feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Actress on Tiptoe | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Gregory Koreff, onetime Moscow Art Theater actor, fascinated her as a child with his living-room characterizations ("in the Stanislavsky tradition") in the family's East Side apartment. But because her mother wanted her to dance, and because she liked dancing better than school, Nora headed for the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Actress on Tiptoe | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...midyear show, which opened last week, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum had chosen an appropriately big subject: "The Classical Contribution to Western Civilization." Covering 25 centuries, the exhibition set out to demonstrate how much was owed to the Greeks and Romans by medieval, Renaissance and even modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pericles to Picasso | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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