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...white turban and blossom-festooned, Tennessee's wide-ranging, head-geared Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, probing his way rapidly around the world, settled down for a brief moment in the northern Indian town of Ratangarh. chuckled admiringly at the local fruits of the U.S.-India technical cooperation program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...whirl of interviews, screenings, photographic sessions, business appointments and kimono changes (she was equipped with ten sets) that she had little time even for window shopping. At week's end she left for Hollywood to discuss MGM's prize offer: that she play the role of Lotus Blossom opposite Marlon Brando in the film version of Broadway's Teahouse of the August Moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...modern, the second a sleazy serenade with a crude rhythm jiggling under a high-toned fiddle, the third a romping gallop. Despite the strange orchestration that leaves the mid-range empty, the music is rich harmonically, and contains snatches of Weill's low-down lyricism that was to blossom into Three-Penny Opera, Street Scene, September Song, etc. Performance: first-rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...story: Stormy Tornado (Betty Grable) and Curly Flagg (Sheree North) are a couple of down-at-the-G-string chorines. The star of their show. Stripper Cherry Blossom Wang, surprises every body by getting herself bumped off. and Stormy and Curly, having seen the murderer, take off to hide. They pick the men's dormitory of a small college. The academic atmosphere is charged with excitement. Sheree is accidentally hypnotized by a student-and remains in that state for most of the picture. Betty cuddles up with an overage student (Robert Cummings) who stays on in school because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Japan was spared the mambo until last fall, when touring Bandman Xavier Cugat introduced it. But it did not really catch on until the Japanese saw Jane Russell do the Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White mambo in the film Underwater! In the last two months more than half a million mambo records have been sold, and Japanese recording companies have been working overtime to meet the mamboom. Top hit is still Cherry Pink, followed closely by Skokiaan Mambo and Cerezo Rosa (a different arrangement of Cherry Pink). Local mambo composers are doing their best to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mambo-San | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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