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...concerto, Van rose from the keyboard and walked out. "I called a halt to the music," says Johnson, "and wondered what we could have done to upset the kid." Just then Van looked back over his shoulder from the wings and drawled: "Go right ahead. Ah'm just goin' to the slot machine for a candy bar." He can be considerate to a fault. In Moscow, one of his American friends had to lock him into his hotel room before he dropped from exhaustion receiving the glad-handers and autograph seekers who streamed in all through the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The All-American Virtuoso | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...bluegum, stinkin' scum of the earth, the niggers with common-law wives and passels of little black bastards." Back home in Georgia, an A.R.F. cofounder, pudgy, rednecked Politico Roy Harris, was equally frank. Vowed Harris, often called the "kingmaker" of Georgia politics: "We're goin' to buy the houses next door to Hubert Humphrey and Dick Nixon and get us the biggest nigger families we can find to send up and move in. We're goin' to see just how these civil righters perform when the problem is across the street or next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Having Wonderful Time | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...being part of the mob chasing Chicago LIFE Correspondent Paul Welch and his photographer partner Grey Villet. I saw Grey holding his long lens out of the crowd's reach. I started over in that direction, along with the mob. A fellow asked me, 'What's goin' on?' His answer came from a stocky butcher-boy type who yelled, 'It's one of them nigger-lovin' LIFE photographers. Let's get him!' Butcher-boy seized my arm, pulled me along with him. So while Paul and Grey were trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...some program changes, occasionally some subdued music, and commercials beamed to a general audience. But for the most part, WILY fans will not be disappointed in WEEP. Announcers will still bray crazy commercials; odd-voiced groups will yell the lyrics to Chicken Baby Chicken, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, and assorted other tunes "to endure traffic jams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: First Peep Out of WEEP | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...more slugs of Scotch, gin and beer ("I don't like the stuff, but it keeps me goin' "), and it was time for the second performance. Fats slipped on his four-carat diamond ring, sank a horseshoe-shaped diamond stickpin in a rich new tie. From the stage, the whine of an electric guitar and the bleat of a sax vibrated through the walls; the rock 'n' roll picadors were wearing down the audience. As his handlers hovered, Fats stuffed himself into a fresh, shimmering suit, then stepped daintily out of the dressing room and trotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fats on Fire | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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