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...Fool's Mate at Suez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...with-Mostes' Perle Mesta. Grandam Mesta (to Chandler): I hear that you are running for President, but you certainly aren't taking yourself seriously, are you? "Happy" Chandler (hurt to the quick): I certainly am. I'm spending my own money, and I'm no fool. You know what they said about the man who sat down at the piano, don't you? . . . Stranger guys than I have lived in the White House! Perle: Who are they? Happy (in miserable evasion): I'm working as hard as I can for this because I feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...said, 'Jimmy, try this thing,' and boy I really cut the mustard!" Three years ago Jimmy was driving a truck to support his family and idly plunking away at his uke in the evenings ("I dream-I go 'bonk, bonk, bonk'-I just fool around"), when he became inspired by the high wit of a local rock 'n' roll disc jockey named Red Blanchard and enrolled in a 96-lesson musical correspondence course ("I learned to read music in the first ten and quit"). He bought a tape recorder and started strumming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cutting the Mustard | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Transfusion sold half a million records in two weeks, is now inching toward the million mark. As Nervous Norvus ("I invented Nervous; I'm the cat that invented that"), Drake found himself famous. He has since produced another hit called Ape Call. "The pterodactyl was a flyin' fool, a breeze-flappin' Daddy of the o-o-ld school." He expects to make around $65,000 this year, but he has an anchor to windward. "The boss told me I can always get my job back with that cool trucking company," he says. "Now wasn't that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cutting the Mustard | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Fool? At first the treatment left Pyrame too weak even to work up a thirst. But having led their horse to their esteemed water, the Bourbouliens made him drink. By last week he was taking his medicine like a man, frisking around almost like a race horse. Just about everybody was overjoyed, impatient for the day when they could get down a bet-everybody, that is, but the local Poujadists. They plastered the town with posters: "Bourbouliens, whom are they making a fool of? If poor little Pyrame is wheezing or broken-winded, there's a way to deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Waters | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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