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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...club (where she sang a song that begins, "Chase me, Charley, over the barley, I've lost the leg of my drawers"), she had picked up plenty of material. Among other things, Elsa, onetime student of Isadora Duncan, confesses that "I am a bit of a dancer and make fantastic motions." What did bother a little was the fact that "I can't sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pitch in the Persian Room | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...gung to make happy liddle Kits like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Another Dogpatch institution, the Skonk Works, is almost as lethal-scores have been done in by the fumes of the concentrated skonk oil which is brewed and barreled by its proprietor, Big Barnsmell, and his "outside man," Barney Barnsmell. Of the devices which are employed to make life horrible for Capp's characters, these are simply the more rudimentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...What does it make?" asks his friend, Tripledome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Wisely & Well. The president of Ivy ("Toddy" to his wife, played by Mrs. Colman) is, of course, a harassed man, whose desk is always littered with reports, and whose days are filled with faculty teas, meetings of the Fiscal Committee of the Governing Board, and invitations to make speeches. Like his fellow presidents, Dr. Hall has a good deal of trustee trouble, especially with the chairman of the board who invariably wants to "throw the book" at someone ("He wouldn't know any other use for a book," says Hall). He is bothered by his budget ("Our sinking fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kilocycle Prexy | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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