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...trying her best to walk in the traditional graceful gait of her calling, under the weight of a 6-lb. wig and suffocatingly embroidered antique costume, two of Tokyo's leading "waitresses" led a regiment of lantern-bearers, bell-ringers, apprentice prostitutes and child attendants through the ancient three-hour procession. "We're certainly not trying to revive interest in prostitution," explained a spokesman for Tokyo's procurers' association, "but we felt that since peace had come back and spring is here, we'd like the people of Tokyo to get a look at what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: Where Am I Now? | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...bright watercolors and drawings of still lifes, models and landscapes, which make up the bulk of his current show, were painted, he says, "for relaxation." He did the work sitting in bed, his drawing block propped against his knees. Some were sketches for the oils he paints in furious three-hour sessions at his nearby studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Late Starter | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

David 1. Coombs was elected chairman of the 1950 class Day Committee during a three-hour session last night in Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1950 Class Day Committee Elects Coombs as Chairman | 3/16/1950 | See Source »

This year as he waited his turn in the ten-day meet, there seemed a good chance that Brownie might fail again. In the three-hour field trials, dogs are judged not only for the number of birds or coveys they find but on their speed, range and obedience, their thoroughness in hunting, their style and manners in pointing, and their steadiness under gunfire. Last year's national champion, a pointer bitch named Sierra Joan, performed beautifully; so did a Winston-Salem, N.C. dog named Fast Delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top of the Field | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Progressives accompanied Chi and Roberts in their three-hour long conference with FEPC representatives. Neither Chi nor Roberts belong to HYP, which told the CRIMSON it would make no further move on the case until the FEPC has had a chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEPC Considers Hazen Complaint | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

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