Word: countings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Congress conviction of Union Organizer John Watkins for refusing to identify Communists he had known, an attorney for Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller observed that the Watkins decision "fits the [Miller] case like a glove." But in Washington last week, U.S. District Judge Charles F. McLaughlin, while dropping one count, refused to set aside the other count of Miller's contempt-of-Congress conviction. McLaughlin's reason, which gave the narrowest possible meaning to the Supreme Court's Watkins decision: Miller, while before a House Un-American Activities subcommittee, had not protested the pertinence of a question...
...Asian influenza, sweeping around the world (TIME, June 24), broke out in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet destroyer force based on Newport, R.I. By last count, about 500 men had the disease-out of 27,500 men on the 110 Newport-based ships, There were no deaths. Laboratory tests showed the virus to be of the mutant Type A first detected in the Orient...
...title tight in Denver, Zulueta's manager, Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman, screamed like a mink. Light gloves, insisted Hymie, were made to order for a slugger like Brown. They seemed to be. Brown waded into Zulueta's flicking jab for 13 rounds, then dropped him for a count of nine. The challenger went down again in the 15th, and Slugger Joe Brown held on to his title with a T.K.O...
...peaceful Stockholm, from English country houses to the ski slopes of Austria's Vorarlberg. The people are nearly as cosmopolitan as Author Zilliacus herself (she has Swedish, Polish, Finnish and American blood), and their luck is uniformly bad. Placid Maria is forced into marriage with a Russian count; lovely Lisa's husband dies in the war; reckless Clarissa gets pregnant by a social inferior; Polish Teresa lets her fiance go rather than subject him to Communism; headstrong Rosemary's lover already has a wife; Pianist Anne-Marie loses her man to the priesthood...
...Whiteman, who "tried to make a lady out of jazz and wound up with a eunuch"; the wider tone colors and neo-jungle rhythms of Duke Ellington; the two-beat music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements; the blues-based simplicity of Count Basie; the thin, sparse sax playing of Les Young; the small jam sessions during World War II made necessary by the wholesale draft; the emergence of bebop and the "soul" of Charlie Parker; the wild, Afro-Cubanism of Dizzy Gillespie; the "cool jazz" of Miles Davis; the influence of Woody...