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Word: hi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only Love as he is on a stomping, heavily chorded Bess, You Is My Woman Now. Early in the morning, when he is running through witty variations of old standbys. he has the small room howling requests. Pianist Coleman has his own theory about the popularity of music rooms: hi-fi has prepared people for good jazz and piano playing. "It's happening all over the city and all over the country, even in places where they've barely learned the progressive beat." he says. "They can scarcely put the pianos in fast enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rise of the Music Room | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

From a small studio in Chicago's station WBBM came an infectious, high-pitched voice: "Hi, kids, my name's Susan." Then the big, fluttery eyes, shiny bangs and friendly full-moon face of Susan Heinkel, 12, brightened the TV screen. After eight ingratiating months as a mistress of ceremonies, star performer and pitchgirl (13 sponsors, e.g., Kellogg's, Pepsi-Cola) on Chicago's most popular local daytime show, Susan was doing her first network edition of Susan's Show over 69 stations (Sat., 11 a.m. E.D.T., CBS). Unruffled and unassuming ("We must remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Susan in Wonderville | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Billed as the biggest international bazaar in Western Hemisphere history, the U.S. World Trade Fair brought 3,000 displays and 43 national pavilions into the four floors of Manhattan's Coliseum. For a fort night buyers from the Americas looked over motor scooters from Italy and hi-fi equipment from Japan, inspected silks from Hong Kong and a pair of Queen Victoria's pantaloons exhibited by Britain's Lux-Lux, Ltd. (underwear), sampled coffee from Brazil and champagne from Israel. Last week, is the show closed, its private U.S. organizers tallied some of the handsome results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Billion-Dollar Business | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Navy Aerobee-Hi research rocket climbed last week to 126 miles above White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. Besides conventional instruments for upper-air research, it carried in its nose a precious but expendable pay load: the electronic guts of a satellite. In an aluminum can 10 in. long and 5 in. in diameter were instruments and circuitry as complicated as six TV sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Satellite Tests | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...Five lords always dined at a small round table. Lord Ha sat next to Lord Hi and Lord Ho. Lord Haw sat next to Lord Hwlk (pronounced How) and Lord Hi. Which two sat next to Lord Hwlk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Invention of the Devil? | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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