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Better Blends. A good example of the coal-rail partnership is the Norfolk & Western, which runs coal directly to port out of the rich Appalachian fields. In operation at Hampton Roads is the first of two units of N. & W.'s $25 million coal Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: The Comeback of Coal | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...Baudouin, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, France's Pierre Mendés-France, Italy's Umberto, the Princesses Brigitta of Sweden and Alexandra of Britain) to plain old actors and artists (Joan Crawford, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Armstrong, Ava Gardner, Melina Mercouri, Lionel Hampton and Pablo Casals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Coming Up Chic | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Shakespeare: Soul of an Age (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Sirs Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson narrate excerpts from a dozen Shakespeare plays while the camera roves the original settings (the Tower of London, the Forest of Arden, Hampton Court, etc.). Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 30, 1962 | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...very full jazz solo with this stuff; you can do a great deal that you can't do with regular four-four time." Byrd cut a bossa nova album with Tenor Saxophonist Stan Getz. Soon there were bossa nova recordings by, among others, Vibraharpist Cal Tjader, Bandleader Lionel Hampton, Saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Zoot Sims. The record companies, hungry for a trend, are now ready to rush 15 or so albums with bossa nova numbers onto the market. Among the featured performers: Peggy Lee, George Shearing. Vic Damone, Paul Anka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bossa Nova | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...father as a drummer. On his television debut he appeared with his mother to play Caravan, treated his listeners to a long solo break that sounded like Krupa. "He's a great little ham," said the station's delighted program director, who stole time from Lionel Hampton's band to make room for James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: I'm Gene Krooper | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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