Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sent to live with his grandmother, Adnan was brought up in sunny Izmir (Smyrna) on the Aegean coast, in a manner befitting a young gentleman of property. His English bike was the best in his fashionable neighborhood, his pocket money ample, and his clothes impeccable. At Izmir's American International College, a Congregational mission school that he entered at 13, Adnan showed himself an exceptionally good student and a born athlete. He was center forward on the school soccer team, an outstanding swimmer, and a first-class billiards player whose popularity was enhanced by the fact that...
...because no. sugar beets were grown in the area. Even more bitterly, they accused him of using development funds as a bottomless pork barrel with which to woo the peasant vote-a charge at least partly borne out last year when Menderes swept along Turkey's Black Sea coast in a pre-election tour passing out promises of sugar mills, cement factories and port improvements with all the abandon of a new father distributing cigars...
Around recording studios, where the best musical reputations are stubbed out during coffee breaks like smoked-down cigarettes, a West Coast lad named Jimmie Rodgers currently enjoys unanimous popularity. Jimmie is one of the hottest new singing properties in the trade. Without the benefit of Elvis' sweaty circumvolutions or Pat Boone's white-buckskin charms, 24-year-old Jimmie figures to rake in $200,000 this year. The charge that propelled him to success, a ditty called Honeycomb recorded several months ago for a small New York label, hymns in strongly rolling accents the wonders of birds, bees...
...year ago Jimmie was prowling the back alleys of Los Angeles, collecting Coke bottles to pad out his food budget. A small-town boy from Washington, he picked up a smattering of guitar while he was in the Air Force, and after his discharge he started touring the West Coast's less-than-first-water water holes. His darkest hour came in the Elks Club in Wenatchee, Wash. The three other hillbillies in his four-billy band were delayed in the hills; alone, Rodgers faced some 40 disappointed Elks. "I started strumming so hard it brought deep blisters...
Today Sculptress Nevelson lives in a three-story house in Manhattan's East 30s, her works scattered among tons of boards, planks, branches and sawdust. She finds her own driftwood along the Maine coast, does most of the work herself, only occasionally hiring a carpenter. When her house began to feel crowded not long ago, she put all her furniture out onto the sidewalk, keeping only a couch, a table and three chairs. "I needed the room," she says, "because I plan my shows as an ensemble, as one work. Everything has to fit together, to flow without effort...