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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harlem's overwhelming musical impact on the jazz age is conveyed by a room where pictures of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Bessie Smith are flashed onto eight screens, while loudspeakers boom their music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Harlem Experiment | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...lunch." Within a year, he settled down in Turin and, at 32, he married swan-necked Princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto. As Gianni's mother was, Marella is half-American; her own mother came from Peoria, Ill., and, on a trip to Italy, met and married Prince Filippo, Duke of Melito. Agnelli has played down the playboy image, but he still is occasionally the last man out of a nightclub. Recalling his earlier years, he says: "People had fun because they wanted to. Present-day playboys play for the public. Values today are of very bad quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A SOCIETY TRANSFORMED BY INDUSTRY | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...draft exempt." According to Hal, it is not so easy for a blind person to get into law school. Many of the schools where he was interviewed were quite discouraging about the prospects of his getting in and getting along there. He had a particularly bad interview at Duke: "You mean to tell me you're really that blind?" the Duke interviewer asked. When Hal inquired as to the ease of getting around, the answer was "It's very difficult." And when asked about readers, the interviewer said that Duke had no facilities whatever for recruiting readers...

Author: By Laura R. Benjamin, | Title: Being Blind at Harvard | 1/16/1969 | See Source »

...TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke both won Oscars for their roles in The Miracle Worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...legendary Rothschilds have quite a knack for multiplying their money by backing the right people in the right places. Rothschild gold bought supplies for the Duke of Wellington before Waterloo, financed Disraeli's purchase of the Suez Canal and bankrolled 19th century railroaders as well as modern industrial pioneers in Newfoundland. Soon the Rothschilds will be striking out in still another direction: the lands around the broad Pacific basin, especially Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: Rothschilds in the Pacific | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

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