Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East, he talks mainly of Japanese military forces when Japan may very well join the neutrals if her economic dilemma remains unsolved. He has staked U.S. prestige on the defense of two unimportant and indefensible islands off the Chinese coast, and he refuses to see that the U.S. must stop trying to overlook the existence of Communist China...
...Francisco's Fireman's Fund, seventh-biggest U.S. fire-casualty-marine insurance underwriter, is often called the West Coast Lloyds. It is willing to take chances on risks that other companies do not handle. The 93-year-old business was founded in San Francisco after the city had burned to the ground six times in 18 months. Fireman's Fund earned its name -and helped ensure its survival-by turning over 10% of its profits as an incentive to San Francisco's volunteer fire brigades. Later it met one of the biggest fire losses ever paid...
...Fund took on a new kind of risk: rain insurance for vacationers. Policies covering 88 resort areas in 32 states and the District of Columbia were approved for sale last week in New York, Connecticut and Florida. The company soon expects to be selling silver linings to vacationers from coast to coast...
Blue Rose (Columbia). An inspired teaming of Songstress Rosemary Clooney and Bandman Duke Ellington. The Duke's crew is in a lush mood, and Rosie sings her swingingest-despite the fact that she sang the lyrics on the West Coast and he played in Manhattan. Taped at her best, in such famed Ellington originals as Mood Indigo and I Got It Bad, she actually sounds like that late princess of vocalists, Ivie Anderson...
Gerry Mulligan Quartet-Paris Concert (Pacific Jazz). One of the most original spirits of the modern school and the man whose well-formed improvisations helped launch so-called West Coast jazz (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954). Baritone Saxophonist Mulligan cajoles his brutish instrument into some sweet and swinging solos and some tenderly twined duets with Bob Brookmeyer's valve trombone. As always, Mulligan brooks no piano...