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...Killed the Bluebird? If a marriage can die a hundred deaths, it can seemingly survive a thousand coroner's inquests. Who killed the bluebird of happiness, and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Who Killed the Bluebird? | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...relate this odyssey of torture only to you, soul of my life. Any other audience would surely call this the flimsiest piece of autistic nonsense since Green Mansions. Yours in despair of the bluebird of happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Autistic Nonsense | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...dozens of robins on this lawn and other dozens on the lawns between here and home. This year four showed up on this lawn, two on the lawns between here and home. A cat got one of the four and now a third has disappeared. The lovely mountain bluebird nested everywhere in this town and the surrounding hamlets and farms. I can't vouch for anywhere but my daily route-but here we have exactly one pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 22, 1969 | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...deep-grounded-in part, as he once said, "because I was trying to play over seven or eight other horns all the time." In 1939, while working with his own combo in New York City, he recorded a version of Body and Soul for RCA Victor's Bluebird label-one of the authentic masterpieces of jazz-a flight of improvised melody as carefully organized as variations on a fugue, a gravely sweet meditation on the hidden melodies within a commonplace tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Farewell to the Hawk | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...opened a gas station. In 1903, Alexander Winton whistled across the hard sandy beach in a Bullet at 68.198 m.p.h. to set Daytona's first land speed record-and started a sequence that culminated in Sir Malcolm Campbell's 276.816-m.p.h. run in his Bluebird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: King of the Stocks | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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