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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...age of 60, Streeter Blair had tried half a dozen careers. He had taught Latin, managed a haberdashery, edited a boys' magazine called The Knicker, ended up operating a successful antique shop in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Late Starter | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Relatively few years were left to him before his death at the age of 78, but in that time, Streeter's "primitive" paintings won growing admiration. Currently, Beverly Hills' Sári Heller Gallery is mounting a show of his work, asking up to $25,000 for a painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Late Starter | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...more shares of Pan Am. He invited a number of Chase officers down to the Bahamas to inspect his Paradise Island complex of hotels and a gambling ca sino. The bankers thereupon agreed to sell their Pan Am stock, then worth about $39 million, for a complex pack age of Resorts' notes and warrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Blocking an Air Raid | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...through the first postwar years. He hit upon the unfortunate scheme of writing what seem to be fragments of separate novels about each member of the family and then cobbling the pieces together. There are simply too many pieces; the family includes, besides Whipple and his wife, three teen-age sons and a daughter, a young girl boarder and a cat. The human characters are led through the loss of virginity or an equivalent test of patience; the cat is honored with a long, agonizing and very well-written death scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At the Edge of Life | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...great individual artists who grew up in the south and later moved to Chicago. Shaky Walter and Johnny Shines met in Memphis after Johnny Shines had travelled and played with one of the greatest and most innovative blues people, Robert Johnson (who was killed in 1937 at the age of 21). Like Robert Johnson, who wrote such great songs as the classic "Dust My Broom" and Muddy Waters" "Walking Blues," Johnny Shines plays a beautiful slide guitar and sings with a clearness and urgency that can hardly be matched. Shaky Walter along with Sunnyland Slim, and Willie Dixon (who wrote...

Author: By Tom Guralnick, | Title: Chicago Blues Allstars | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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