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...crimson carpet. The firm's explanation of the room's confusion was that it was for "a person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue and mirrors. Venetian Sitting Room mixed a magnificent pair of Venetian doors, a green Aubusson rug and a modern paned mirror. Modern Drawing Room, in grey, yellow and chartreuse, showed the sure-fire de Wolfe method of using fairly simple and expensive pieces of various periods with some modern lighting, square stuffed chairs, more mirrors and light-colored walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Plenty of Time | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...group of mottled, sinister-looking wild dogs are intently watching a herd of zebra, ready to give chase and cut down a straggler. There is a group of five lions, including a superb black-maned male. Four giant sable antelopes are resting in a copse of acacia trees. A pair of Bongo antelopes are pushing into a bamboo jungle, disturbing a forest hog which heaves up from its bed among ferns and orchids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Africa Transplanted | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...this pair George Gardner. The hand he got in the Stadium last Saturday for his fifty piece of running in the 3000-meters was surpassed only by the runner who came in last in the same race five minutes after the announcements were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weak Yardling Trackmen Promise Five to Fill Gaping Holes in Next Year's Varsity Contingent | 5/26/1936 | See Source »

...before, Caretaker null and sister had refused to budge, had begun patrolling the place with rifles and revolvers in their hands Last week a white woman complained that William Walles had threatened her with a gun. The Orange County sheriff swore out a lunacy warrant, went to bring the pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cemetery Siege | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Francisco's Shamrock Club, Dancer Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bouncer | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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