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Sweet-faced, velvet-voiced Singer Maxine Sullivan, the darling of nightclubs, schoolboys and college youths, last week found a new, choicer audience. Sweet-swinging such ballads as Barbara Allen and Who Is Sylvia?, café-au-lait-colored Miss Sullivan was the cream of a "Coffee Concert" in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coffee & Cream | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...College with a happy group of collegians whose principal credentials are their aptitude with a funny line or a catchy Rodgers & Hart tune. Summa cum laude in voice is Radio Songstress Frances Langford, crooning Love Never Went to College with feeling. Doe-eyed Lucille Ball gets choicer material in the well-worn I Didn't Know What Time It Was and the new You're Nearer, also gets the affections of Richard Carlson, whose crew haircut makes him the first genuine-looking Princeton undergraduate in cinema history. Ann Miller, Hal LeRoy and a Cuban, Desi Arnaz, a terpsichorean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

When settlers from Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri pushed down to Texas last century, they took their foxhounds with them. Looking around for choicer game than Texas' quickly grounded grey fox, the settlers found it in the wily, hard-running coyote or "Mexican Wolf." At first the new quarry proved too fast, too long-winded for their hounds. Huntsmen sent back to Kentucky for dogs of the famed Walker and Trigg stock, soon bred a hound which could more than match the coyote's speed and stamina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Texas Wolf Hunt | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Last week good Prince Gaston temporized, promised to investigate, tickled the coarse palates of the humble hillmen with a dinner of choice viands and choicer champagnes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rankling Abuse | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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