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One sensational model was the "Merry Widow'': a sophisticated cocktail dress in heavy black crepe, with a short clinging skirt, a pink rose to punctuate the waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: From Apricot to Oyster | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Westbrook Pegler, most glowering of columnists, suddenly bared to his readers a gentle, wistful soul. Sourball Pegler confessed that he had found his "stock of merry jape and ready wit" quite low, and was "considering steps to correct this. . . ." Whether his boss (Hearst) had told him to get off his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Confessions of a Grouch | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Under the Light. The court consisted of three judges and one alternate, all from the Red Army Judicial Service. The President Justice was Colonel General Vassily V. Ulrich, a round-faced, double-chinned man with twinkling eyes and a merry grin which sometimes seemed on the verge of becoming a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Frightened Poles | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

The little old man in a pink Tyrolean shirt played the piano with trembling hands. When the two Allied war correspondents swayed to his lilting Merry Widow Waltz, tears came to the old man's eyes. "Then the world has not forgotten me," he said.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Lehar Liberated | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Alfred Noyes, British poet (The High wayman) now living in California, advised San Francisco conferees to renounce power politics for "the religion of unselfish love. God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies." Colonel Robert S. Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Plans & Promises | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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