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...Jolly Farmer. For eight months before his death, Wilson had off & on dealings with Tom Holland, a 6 ft., 200 lb. farmer from Beryl, a hamlet 150 miles to the northwest. Holland, who is as jovial as Wilson was bellicose, came to Kanab in a house trailer, with some vague agreement to work on Wilson's claims. The partners fought, made up, fought again. One day last week Holland and Wilson were observed in town, apparently in a rare mood of good fellowship. They set off to inspect new claims, returned that night, and made plans to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Geiger-Counter Murder | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...vibraharp and Oscar Peterson's piano). Columbia reels off a big jam session that includes a dizzying 63 choruses of The Huckle-Buck, played by Trumpeter Buck Clayton & Co. Pacific Jazz features the original inventions of the Russ Freeman Trio. Discovery has the bleep-bloop piano playing of Beryl Booker with her trio. Capitol includes Lennie Tristano and his fantastic a-rhythmical meanderings in a new clutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Hollywood one day last fall, Songstress Beryl Davis, British-born and an Anglican, persuaded three other well-known Hollywood girls to help out on an evening's entertainment at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Her helpers: Songstresses Connie Haines, a Southern Presbyterian, Delia Russell, a Roman Catholic, and Actress Jane Russell, a nondenominational Protestant. Beryl directed the other three in a swingy version of Do Lord, an oldtime hymn. The audience gave them a huge hand, and thereby launched a new U.S. gospel quartet on a promising career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hollywood's Joyful Noises | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Thou Swell (Beryl Booker Trio; Discovery). Slightly nervous but mighty high-flown ivory-tickling on another Rodgers & Hart oldie, with firm drum and bass support by an all-girl combo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

With a Stocking. In the next five years Christie was not sure whether he had killed anyone. "I might have done," he murmured. Then in 1949 he became friendly, but "not intimate," with his neighbor Mrs. Beryl Evans, who was despondent over a coming baby and her husband's affair with a blonde. Christie turned the gas on, then. "I think I strangled her with a stocking." Later he removed the stocking, told her husband she had died. He denied strangling the baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In a Strange Country | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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