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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genuine harem types, "just slaves"). The Imam spends his time in Rome's Villa Margherita clinic, where a dozen doctors, both Yemeni and Roman, diligently labor to resharpen the Sword of Islam. Meanwhile, the women lounge around a beach hotel near Rome, relishing television, ice cream and high-calorific Italian cooking. They are protected from prying newsmen by dagger-brandishing Yemeni guards on the premises, jittery carabinieri at the portals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Detroit's Frank Lary threw a high, hard one, sent Washington's Harmon Killebrew sprawling in the dirt. Husky (6 ft., 195 Ibs.) Third Baseman Killebrew was unruffled. He rose, socked the next pitch far into the leftfield bleachers to tie the score. Next time up, he blasted a long three-run homer to bring the Senators a 7-4 victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Killer | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...year ago, no pitcher would have bothered to dust off Harmon Clayton Killebrew, 22. But last week young Killebrew was 'the chief reason the sad-sack Senators were as high as fourth place in the American League. At week's end "Killer'' Killebrew led the league in home runs (14). runs scored (29), runs batted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Killer | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...onetime wrestler turned house painter, Killebrew was born in Payette, Idaho, just. 15 miles from Weiser, where a Senators' scout discovered the great Walter Johnson 53 years ago. At high school Killebrew starred in football, basketball and baseball, was spotted as a promising native son by Idaho's laie Senator Herman Welker. At Welker's urging, a Washington scout traveled west in 1954 to watch the youngster play semipro ball in the Idaho-Oregon Border League. Killebrew promptly went 14-for-14 (five homers, four triples), belted one homer over a fence 435 ft. away. The tightfisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Killer | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...Pieces, Opus 6. The work detailed Mary's discard of the symbols of statecraft, her hopeless duel with Elizabeth, her course to death on the scaffold. Brilliantly costumed, the work had some stunning theatrical effects: the sudden revelation of Elizabeth in shimmering gold gown as her high-backed throne turns slowly to the audience, the ritualistic tennis game played with gold rackets and balls by Elizabeth and Mary. If the work of Choreographer Graham sometimes seemed pretentious in its symbolism, it was redeemed by the performance of Dancer Graham, who moved sometimes with an imperious tread, sometimes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Atonal Ballet | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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