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...matter-of-fact tone of a chronicler, she sped through the early lines, told how she, Medea, had lavished her love on her husband Jason, only to have him leave her for another woman. Gradually, with ever-widening vocal leaps and roller-coaster plunges, she worked up to her thoughts of revenge and-with a piccolo shrilling-to the murder of her own and Jason's children. The piece ended in a gloomy postlude. When it was over, the orchestra gave Thebom a concerted "Bravo!", and the audience, once it recovered its composure, called her back five times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Thoughtful Mezzo | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...Greenbriar suite of Cleveland's Terminal Tower, lean, white-thatched old Cyrus S. Eaton, 70, invited newsmen last week, to tell them of one of the biggest and most successful deals of his roller-coaster career. Chicago's Inland Steel Co., eighth biggest in the U.S., had agreed to put up $50 million for development of Eaton's Steep Rock iron-ore deposits at Steep Rock Lake, Ont. As part of the deal, Eaton's own Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. got an $8,000,000 loan from Inland to help develop its own diggings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Inland to Canada | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...first triangular swim meet of the season, Adams splashed to a bare 26 to 22 win over Eliot after lagging behind until the 200 yard relay of the six event program. Dunster also fell prey to the Gold Coaster's 18 to 30 and to Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the House | 2/13/1953 | See Source »

...Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling rhythm, and passed on, exalted. "You see," cried a delirious Gold Coaster, grabbing the arm of a wondering white man, "it is real-REAL! Real democracy. He is one of us. A man of the people. Now that you have seen, you must understand: we can govern ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...centuries past, the fear of pirates was always uppermost in the thoughts of Dutch merchant skippers sailing their heavy-laden East Indiamen along the coasts of Africa. No such grim foreboding clutched the heart of Johannes Van Delft, master of the tiny (265 tons) Dutch coaster Combinatie, as he put out of Tangier Harbor into the Strait of Gibraltar, bound for Malta, one day last month, laden with $100,000 worth of U.S. cigarettes. It was the 20th century; the sky was blue overhead; ten kegs of good Holland beer were stowed below, to complement the vessel's small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HIGH SEAS: Lucky & the Jolly Roger | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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