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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pete's sake, why does everybody have to refer to fortyish Torch Singer Roberta Sherwood as "middle-aged"? Speaking for myself and all us girls in this interesting age bracket, my spread has not changed status one bit in the last 20 years; furthermore, I am not now and never will be middleaged. CONSTANCE SANDERSON Brockton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...Sing, won a parole in 1944. At 67 he settled down with his memories and his wife in a Long Island beach home. Last week, at 80, his armies and his power long gone, his name hardly known in the new army, Jimmy Hines died of the infirmities of age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: One Man's Army | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Barnum's Blood Brother. Williams believes that society in any stage of evolution gets the newspapers it deserves. "The press," he says, "is the mirror of its age because the degree of authority and independence it is permitted to exercise, or is able to seize for itself, and the nature of its influence on public opinion, throw light on the real balance of power in a society." Newspapers can no longer influence readers as they did when government was less complex and the electorate less educated. As the phenomenally successful Lord Northcliffe once told Daily Mail staffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press as a Minefield | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...slightly monotonous voice, in some songs' exhibits a shaky sense of beat. He himself believes that he has simply tapped a burgeoning religious revival which is sweeping all France. On the other hand, a crooner m a clerical collar may simply be a novelty hit. Sighed one teen-age fan last week: "He looks so handsome and tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swinging Priests | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...century Paul Gauguin has become increasingly famous as a painter of genius who invented a unique style. In that same period Emile Bernard has languished in the shadow as a second-rate symbolist. But back in the 1880s it was Bernard, at 20, just half Gauguin's age, who led the older man beyond impressionism and guided him toward the style that now defines him. Bernard was painting like Gauguin before Gauguin himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gauguin Before Gauguin | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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