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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schoenberg of Jazz | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...Cool Logic. In Phoenix, after crossing the burning Mojave desert in a car fitted with 50 Ibs. of ice and an air-conditioning unit, plus a block of dry ice on the floorboard, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Larnce pulled into a service station to find out what made the car so warm, learned that their heater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...miles from Fort Worth to Barksdale Field in Shreveport, La. Last week the Air Force announced that one of its RB-45s (North American's four-jet light bomber, which ordinarily has a top speed of about 550 m.p.h.) had covered the distance in a cool 13 min. 50 sec. Captain John J. Mackey had accidentally picked up a lift from the jet airstream, the high-velocity wind that zigzags unpredictably through the substratospheric sky (TIME, Oct. 16). His average speed for the flight: 886 m.p.h., a figure which the Air Force modestly admitted was probably a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Record Flight | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...took in the scene, wide-eyed but cool, then sent allied correspondents and photographers to get evidence of the Red violation, photograph the enemy soldiers. At the council table Joy noted the affair formally "for the record." That afternoon's session lasted only seven minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Message from Ridgway | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...Yale picked for next year is the Rev. John Courtney Murray, 46, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), cucumber-cool intellectual who teaches theology at Woodstock (Md.) College, but is famed far beyond. Father Murray is a towering figure among U.S. Catholic scholars. A polite and learned defender of the faith, he edits the erudite quarterly, Theological Studies (he will continue to do so at Yale), and is the spearhead of a bold attempt to reconcile traditional Catholic church-state doctrine with U.S. practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Yale, a Thomist | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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