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The childless Stantons live in a five-room Manhattan apartment that glitters with glass, polished woods and geometric abstractions. It looks a little like a wing of the Museum of Modern Art, but somehow seems to be comfortable, too. Stanton himself decorated the apartment, as well as his own and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At the End of the Rainbow | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Mr. Greene has not used the theater as a soapbox. He has successfully presented a complex problem without long, impassioned speeches; his dialogue is terse and understated. Voices are raised only four or five times during the evening. And time is taken to give a complete picture of the characters...

Author: By Edmond A. Levy, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

"So far as there is any actual experience of the working of Socialist governments in parliamentary democracies, the evidence seems to point the other way. Instead of the Socialist machine accelerating in a grim geometric progression towards an infinity of state control, the British and Scandinavian models seem to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Osmosis in Queuetopia | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Albion is glad to be back at Harvard. He likes the climate, the students, and being near home. He likes the leeway given him in teaching his new course, History 168, which is also rapidly becoming known as "Boats." He likes the evidence that the enrollment of his course is...

Author: By Paul W. Mandol, | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

When the Sept. 1 issue of Vogue (circ. 345,358) went on sale last week, Editor Carmel Snow of the rival Harper's Bazaar (circ. 321,325) gasped in dismay. Leading off the magazine was a 17-page view of the new Paris fashions. It was a big beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gentlemen's Disagreement | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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