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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troupe called Jazz at the Philharmonic (TIME, March 2), he has fascinated audiences on three continents, won Down Beat magazine's "best piano player" poll four years in a row. Last week, at Los Angeles' Tiffany Club," he settled his huge (6 ft. 2 in., 250 Ibs.) bulk on the bench, spread his long, spatulate fingers over the keys, and gave his doting audience a typical sample of piano a la Peterson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swing, with Harmonics | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Through eleven hours of argument, the nine Justices were studies in intense interest. Earl Warren, his bulk (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) dominating the bench, sat erect in the high-back chair that had been used by the late Chief Justice Vinson (Said Warren to a court official who asked him if he wanted his own specially built chair: "Pshaw, that one's plenty good enough for me!"). Occasionally he asked a quiet question to clarify a point. Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, as if playing pizzicato violin to Warren's cello, turned and twisted in his specially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: The Fading Line | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...front. He lived hazardously and miraculously, jeeping through enemy roadblocks, leading relief columns to the front, jogging and rallying his men everywhere. Once the enemy crossed the Kum River, the pivotal city of Taejon was doomed, but Dean decided to give the Communists a real fight. He sent the bulk of his troops south to dig in for the next battle, and stayed on himself in Taejon with elements of the 19th and 34th Regiments to direct the last and greatest delaying action before the Pusan perimeter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: A Soldier's Soldier | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Total gifts and pledges in the drive to date reach $840,000. The bulk of the contributions have been in the James Bryant Conant Foundation, established by the Corporation last May in honor of the President-emeritus...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Education School Drive Nears One Million Mark | 12/3/1953 | See Source »

...defend itself, too proud to acknowledge its weakness even to itself, too fearful to heal it with an arrangement which permits Germany to rearm. As usual, the men on the extreme right, the Gaullists, and those on the extreme left, the Communists, rose in unequivocal opposition. But the bulk of France's parliament formed into a walking, talking tapestry of the confusion that threads through all France's social, religious and party lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tortured Mind | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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