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Last week, in the midst of Bangkok's frenetic preconference housecleaning, the Phibun government did its best to remove the skeleton from Ananda's closet by executing three Siamese vaguely convicted of "complicity" in his murder. The three were the late King's pages, Busya Patamasirind, 50...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Orchids for the Secretary | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Pioneering as the first American jazz bandleader ever to go jamming around Israel, drum-busting Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton tortured his tom-toms in Tel Aviv, had frenetic listeners in the aisles stomping out the Horn, Israel's most popular folk dance. After one concert, during which some 100 cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Educational TV, of course, can hardly tolerate dullness, but at least it doesn't have to engage in the frenetic competition to "entertain" the public. The WGBH management feels that 'in a very real sense the program should take place not in the studio, but in the viewer's mind...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: WGBH: A Station for Special Publics Develops an Eye as Well as an Ear | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

What was new in all this, aside from its frenetic ingenuity, and what struck the public most, was the music. It hopped, it jangled, it twitched, it plankety-planked, and from that day forward was known as "Mickey Mouse Music"-an exquisite melding of bad honky-tonk and good rattletrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE MOUSE THAT WALT BUILT | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

Two in Love (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS) borrows in all directions: from countless quiz shows, from Bride & Groom, from This Is Your Life. Frenetic Bert Parks tries to make all these elements stick together by bringing onstage a devoted couple and then surrounding them with assorted friends and relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Imitators | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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