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Critics (many of whom are closet composers) so admire her service to music that they never give her a bad notice. Last week the New York Herald Tribune's second-string critic, Francis Perkins, read a book (Drew Middleton's Our Share of Night) through much of the program, finally seemed to sleep. The next day his review was the best she received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Song Plugger | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...furnace can be used as a space heater, embedded in a wall between two rooms to heat both, or stuck on a closet shelf to heat two or more rooms through short ducts. Two such units, said Stewart-Warner President James S. Knowlson, can heat the average six-room house, can be installed by one man. Cost: $200 a heater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Suitcase Furnace | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Apple cider, commonly associated in New England environs with the first Pilgrim Harvest, was also in evidence about College rooms. One straitened but ingenious host placed a quart in his closet uncorked. "It'll be better next year, the natural reward for abstinence," said the Economics major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voracious Diners Get Ample Festive Turkey In Fat Second Rounds | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

...here and it was good. Buttoning up his shirt, Vag glanced into the other room and saw that the two guys were dressed with definitely blue neckties peering out of their jackets. Nodding his head deliberately, he shuffled through the mass of stripes and polka-dots hanging behind his closet door, came up with a knitted crimson affair, and carefully knotted it between button-down collars. "Mustn't forget the other thing either," he said to no one in particular, and reaching tenderly into the towel and sheet drawer, he came up triumphantly with a pint of whiskey. He eased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

With wax, poles, and boots out of the closet for the winter, the Harvard Ski Club will hold its first important winter meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The 33 man Club, which includes an active ski meet team in its midst, is anxious to expand to its limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Club Will Meet Thursday To Plan for Approaching Snow | 11/20/1946 | See Source »

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