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Around the village of Bazouges-du-Désert, in Brittany, the apples grow big and sweet, and the Calvados (apple brandy) is a potable that is more in demand than the local water. In the town one morning last week the biggest bell in the church tower began to peal. It was a familiar but urgent tocsin of alarm. Government tax collectors had been sighted. The revenuers were looking for illegal Calvados and unlicensed stills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sound the Tocsin | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Died. José Maria Sert, 69, muralist in the grandiose manner (his best known works adorn the League of Nations council chamber, the main lobby of Manhattan's RCA Building, the Waldorf-Astoria Sert Room); in Barcelona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...building trades' obstructionism, public unconcern. But every once in a while poor, young prefabrication makes news. Last week the Government approved another prefabrication project for defense housing (it had already approved 40 others). The designers: U.S. Architect Paul Lester Wiener, Spain's Town Planner José Luis Sert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Houses Like Snails | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Under wartime restrictions the panels are made of celotex and wallboard. But they could be made of any material. Having no weight-carrying walls, the Wiener-Sert system uses only about 50% of the structural lumber and 80% of the metal permitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Houses Like Snails | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Johnson's Sons O'Fun. Rosario & Antonio (only 21 and 20 respectively) danced as children in the market places of Seville and Granada, later toured Europe and South America, reached Manhattan two and a half years ago as a specialty act at the Waldorf-Astoria's Sert Room. Their flashing gyrations and intricate footwork so excited their first-night audience that it buried them in flowers. Known as Los Chavalillos Sevillanos ("The little kids from Seville"), first-cousins Rosario & Antonio now want to dance Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Leading Latins | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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