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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark, wispy little man with the high forehead and the doe-brown eyes raised his hands. Softly he blew into the instrument half-hidden between his palms. He could no more describe the magic than could his friend Feather, after seeing a similar performance almost 20 years ago. There was no need. Haunting as a train whistle at midnight, evocative as a gutbucket trumpet, as clean as a bank of violins, the music made by Harmonicist Larry Adler, 45, transformed the tawdry basement nightclub. For a little while last week, the bandstand at San Francisco's "hungry i" nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Harmonica's Return | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...chosen antifever drug is what the doctor should order after thorough diagnosis, Dr. Done concedes. But in general he agrees with Manhattan's late Physiologist Eugene F. Du Bois: "Fever is only a symptom, and we are not sure that it is an enemy. Perhaps it is a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Friendly Fever? | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...Farmer's Wife, which was bought by the Farm Journal in 1939. Under pert Editor Gertrude Dieken, who was raised on an Iowa farm, the section has its own inside cover, draws up to 1,500 letters a month, most of them written as though to a close friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Farmer's Friend | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Died. Julius Howland Barnes, 86, Duluth industrialist, onetime president (1921-24) and chairman (1929-31) of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sometime trouble-shooter for his friend Herbert Hoover; of a heart attack; in Duluth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 27, 1959 | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...trance. During the trance, he saw visions, and later declared that he had talked with God and been ordained to rule China. Hung threw the graven tablet commemorating Confucius out of his classroom. The act brought immediate dismissal as a teacher. After Hung converted his best friend, the pair began proselytizing in Kwangsi province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jerusalem at Nanking | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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