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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made by singers who sell more songs. But when Lola's latest release, Dreamsville, went out to the deejays last week, its fans were readymade. For Lola is Edie Hart, the slim, smoky-voiced saloon singer, the girl wrho keeps the fires warm for TV's Private Eye Peter Gunn, the blue-eyed sentimentalist who can whisper into the mike and convince a million televiewers that she is alone with each one of them. The songs may be old-They Didn't Believe Me, It's Always You-but the voice comes fresh and insinuating, husky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Men Look Twice | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Jaundiced Eye. It took Detroit and the U.S. a long time to recognize Yamasaki, as it took Yamasaki a long time to find himself. Born in Seattle, he shared the indignities common to Japanese Americans. But he had a burning desire, inspired by an architect uncle, to become an architect. After getting his degree in architecture from the University of Washington, he went East to New York, struggled through a long apprenticeship working as a draftsman, waited out the animosity of the war years, in 1945 landed a job with a firm in Detroit, where he stayed. Steady progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Serenity & Delight | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Yamasaki took advantage of a long convalescence to go to Japan. He was captivated by what he saw in its architecture: the interplay of light and shadow, the union of building and garden. He came back to cast a jaundiced eye on the serried ranks of glass boxes rising along the main streets of Manhattan and other major cities. "Our life gives promise of being spent in look-alike houses, look-alike automobiles and look-alike buildings," he warned his fellow architects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Serenity & Delight | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...more story was added to the lore of the man who is already one of the best-loved Popes of modern times. He has given away his breviary-and to an Anglican. The recipient: Canon Donald Rea. vicar of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Eye, Suffolk, and chairman of the Anglican Confraternity of Unity, founded in 1926 "to restore communion with the Holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope's Present | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Thurs., Sept. 10 Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Latest en trant in the shamus sweepstakes. John Cassavetes plays Johnny Staccato, the jazz pianist who gets his big kicks as a private eye. In The Naked Truth, Johnny straight ens out a bit of blackmail without missing a beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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