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...Fibber McGee's cluttered closet is one of the best known. NBC's Tom Horan of Chicago invented it. He used a set of studio chairs resembling a back stoop, piled each step high with old shoes, bowling pins, tennis rackets, bird cages, roller skates, broken dishes and iron scraps...
...Tuckahoe, Westchester County suburb of New York City, there were strange goings-on at the high school. On Monday morning, pupils reporting for home-economics class, in a model apartment on the first floor, discovered two open suitcases on the studio couch, a pair of trousers in a closet, a rich smell of coffee...
...looked like so many Britons at play. For most people there were still few vacations. Factories were working full blast, many on peacetime luxuries (brassieres, chocolates), and cities were laying the foundations for new houses. Stalingraders' pulses quickened at a reconversion dream: two rooms and a private water closet. Such work, the people felt, was in itself an otpusk (vacation) for them...
...Colby home, Bobby's mother tidied up her son's room, which was still the way he had left it-pin-up girls and airplane pictures on the wall, a radio and Popular Science on the table, his civilian clothes hanging in the closet. He had been in the North African campaign, then in the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and is now in Germany...
When the exquisite Christ at Emmaus was found in the linen closet of a Paris house (TIME, Sept. 19, 1938) it was one of the big art stories of the decade. It was a soft-colored, realistic painting in the early style of Old Master (17th Century) Jan Vermeer. The Christ was authenticated by impeccable Dutch art experts, and bought by Rotterdam's Boymans Museum. Last week, a Dutch Nazi confessed that he had painted the "Vermeer" himself -and, what's more, had knocked off six others, plus two Pieter de Hooches for good measure. Total reward...