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...which is to singers what the Palace was to Eileen Farrell's vaudeville parents, is sagging under a bumper crop of top sopranos and has made Farrell no overtures. She does not mind, among other reasons because she is not willing to trim her imposing figure to the stylish slimness theoretically desired, if rarely attained, at the Met. Says she: "I tried, but I felt terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stolen Island Soprano | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

COTTON-CROP SUPPORTS will drop below 90% of parity next year (probably to 80%) for the first time in 13 years. With an 8,000,000-bale store already in Government hands and a bumper 14,663,000-bale crop moving into the glutted market, farmers voted 13-to-1 for 1956 crop quotas to make the best of a poor bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...Guilty Flee. In Jonesboro, Ark., Mrs. R. J. Barnhoft was arrested for drunkenness when she drove into a service station dragging a driverless pickup truck by the rear bumper of her car, and whispered darkly to the attendant: "I wish you'd check that guy behind me; I think he's drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...admission, U.S. television is committed to the seemingly impossible task of pleasing everybody. Last week the industry came closer to the mark than usual, with a bumper assortment of parades, pageants, period pieces and political themes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Week in Review | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Measuring 15 ft. 9 in. bumper to bumper, the Goddess is the longest, roomiest (six passengers) mass-production model in France and, at 930,000 francs ($2,657), the costliest. But by week's end thousands of Frenchmen had plunked down cash deposits of $215 apiece, virtually bought out production for the next 27 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Goddess | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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