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...warcaster who has sat longest at a Russian microphone during World War II recently returned to the U.S NBC's thin, quiet, earnest Robert Magidoff, ex-A.P. man, has been in Russia, except for an occasional trip home, for the last eight years. Kiev-born, U.S.-raised and educated (University of Wisconsin), he was hired by NBC two and a half year ago, sight unseen. He is married to a Russian, speaks her language fluently, ha observed her people with equanimity. Some of his observations...
...Baths Every Week." Vogue was not always strictly a woman's magazine. Born in the '90s, it was at first a thin, snobbish weekly beamed at socialites and full of socialite-weight stuff. One early issue, peering snootily over its lorgnette, inquired: "Now that the masses take baths every week, how can one ever distinguish the gentleman?" For years Vogue carried a stock feature labeled "The Well-Dressed...
...Allies were bled white by three years of viselike war. They were low in morale and committed to holding trenches, but their spirits rose when Pershing and the A.E.F. arrived. The leaders of the British and French were eager to absorb this fresh new blood into their own thin blood streams...
...large bedroom of St. Louis' Coronado Hotel, a thin-haired little man who looks like a timid clerk last week shot com mands at eight tired businessmen. "Little Bill" Miller, probably the country's foremost relaxation expert, was holding class-at $100 a head for six one-hour lessons...
...English in a ceaseless attempt to win him and his precious talents to their side). The plots and subplots that are interwoven with this main theme are weakened by a dreamy inconsequentiality; they seem to evaporate in the hot dry air like figures of Indian magic climbing the thin rope of the story and disappearing. For the spell of Indigo is hypnotic...