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Chirico (pronounced keerico) had long since holed up in a cluttered Rome studio to wait out modern art. Nowadays the aging (58) Italian master blushes at the melancholy fantasies-full of staring colonnades, long black five-o'clock shadows, twisted manikins-which made him famous. He had since passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Counterfeits Preferred | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Last week the industry's biggest buyer of gag cartoons sat in his gag-littered office at Collier's and shuffled through the week's receipts: more than 2,000 roughs. (Out of 15,000 mailed in each year by unknown hopefuls who just know they can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: This Little Gag Went... | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

"She had a sweet little face with the upper lip lifted away from the lower in a kind of child-like perplexity, and all sorts of soft thick yellow hair tumbling down. She was all small and white, with the hands of a baby, and little baby legs and feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The World's Too Lovely | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Silent Tom. Many a millionaire has ransomed his kingdom for a race horse, and ended up with a big oat bill. The difference, in Millionaire Elizabeth Arden Graham's case, is that Tom Smith spent her gold and brought home silver cups. Tom Smith is a shortish, pale and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lady's Day in Louisville | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

One of the failures of Trotsky's Stalin is that he cannot admit one staring fact: Stalin won what Trotsky somewhat grandly calls "the grand polemic," because a majority of the Communist Party sensed instinctively that the nature of Stalin embodied, far more than the more brilliant Trotsky, something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hark from the Tomb | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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