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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The achievement does not seem impressive mainly because it is far from enough to keep the Garden going. "It's all rundown now," mourned one of the maids last week, "but it's still got a lot of what you'd call dignity. The same people keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of the House Party | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

But Marcucci persisted. He saw in the round-shouldered boy with the smooth olive skin and the sharp, ducktail haircut just the sort of all-American appeal he was looking for. He made Fabian go to a voice teacher-three voice teachers, in fact, before one was willing to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Tuneless Tiger | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Now, two years later, Fabian is leaving them for dead at the jukeboxes. His voice, when it can be heard at all over the artful work of his accompanying musicians and the studio sound engineers, suggests mournfully that he is trying to imitate every rock-'n'-roller on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Tuneless Tiger | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Last week the tuneless terror blew into Hollywood with a $35,000, ten-week contract to make his first movie, Hound Dog Man. In the tradition of his trade, screaming hordes of bobby-soxers were on hand to greet him at the airport (where they broke a car window and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Tuneless Tiger | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

At work excavating gravel from a water-filled pit in Kent, England last week, a workman felt his scoop hit an obstacle. He gave it an extra pull, and near fainted from fright: up came a 1,100-lb. bomb, a German dud from World War II. Within minutes, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bomb Tamer | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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