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November 15, 1947

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The Whole Thing is All with Lights

PROFILE of Jacob Buchter, chief electrician at the Met. Opera House. The stagehands are grateful to Buchter, for it was in their interest that he improved …

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Edith Piaf’s Thousand (Delightful) Ways to Bum You Out

On visiting New York, the doleful French singer explains how she abandoned gloomy subjects, like dead secret lovers, for new, brighter ones, like dead non-secret lovers, A. J. Liebling writes.

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