Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most vicious bullet the Reds have in the cold war is the dope traffic." Swiss newspapers angrily demanded the ambassador's recall, and told their readers that he was the same Taylor "who once wrote sensational stories about flying saucers." Taylor and Bartholomew issued conflicting versions of their interview; the Swiss government summoned Taylor to tell him that they were "not enchanted," and the U.S. State Department apologized to the Swiss for the "embarrassment caused...
...Lion Roars (Willie "The Lion" Smith; Dot). In an interview with Critic Leonard Feather, Harlem's most-storied stride pianist rambles through some richly colored reminiscences about the good, bold days of jazz. (Willie's earliest jazz school: the brickyards of Haverstraw, N.Y.). The Lion roars too much and plays too little, but a couple of his own compositions-Echo of Spring, with its lacy embroidery over a rolling bass, and Zig-Zag, with its propulsive drive-are worth the price of the album...
...Middle East's biggest stories, including six TIME covers, Mecklin has come to know well every Arab head of state except the Imam of Yemen and the Sheik of Kuwait. He was on close enough terms with Nasser to be chosen for the dictator's first interview, six hours long, after the Suez war. That friendship has since chilled. He was a good friend of the late Nuri Pasha of Iraq, who always greeted him with the shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME'S cover...
...idle hour, Jazz Columnist Ralph Gleason of the San Francisco Chronicle staged a tongue-in-cheek interview with a fictional hipster named Shorty Pederstein. His old friend, he reported, had deserted the beard-and-sandal set of the Beat Generation, now boasted a Nob Hill address, clean shaves and tennis togs...
Last week Gleason was gleefully passing around a story sent out by the local bureau of United Press International, which had bought the fake interview as the cool truth, and forthwith dispatched it without credit to Gleason's column. Said the U.P.I, story: "San Francisco's famed 'beatsters' are shaving off their beards, Jazz Musician Shorty Pederstein explains, 'The beard has lost its effect and is now respectable. To wear a beard is no distinction. Not to wear a beard is the strongest pattern of nonconformity...