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...Miss Thrijtway and her owner, Seattle Grocer Willard Rhodes, were out to settle an old score. Last year on Lake Washington, Rhodes figured he and Miss Thrijtway had the Gold Cup won, watched his driver, Bill Muncey, given a victory .dunking, only to learn later that Detroit's Gale V had taken first on corrected scoring. Now, Miss Thrijtway once more finished the final heat in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tarnished Gold Cup | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...that the first emperor of Japan was descended from the sun and the sea, and ascended the throne on Feb.11, 660 B.C.* During the 26 centuries since. Japanese governments have often used the legend as an anchor when storms rocked the ship of state. During the deadly gale of World War II, the government played up the legend to bolster morale, even forced eminent scholars into backing the "divine nation" story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Into a Legend | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Tell Me Why (Gale Storm; Dot). One of those concoctions that bear the inscrutable features of a hit. This one may have a pretty tune−with words about the mysteries of loving and leaving−but a listener would never know; Songstress Storm's voice skitters around it, slides under it, swoops past it, does everything but sing it straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Ivory Tower (Gale Storm; Dot). Another waltz in the rinky-dink style that seems to go with the rock-'n'-roll idiom. The simple-minded but bestselling message: "It's cold, so cold, in your ivory tower, and warm, so warm in my arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...bourgeois leads a somewhat more rugged existence. Huddied against the bank, grittily withstanding the force of a cold wind of near-gale proportions, they seek entertainment after a week's labor in Lamont or Widener...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Egg in your Beer | 5/25/1956 | See Source »

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