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...this amiable study of a man and his epoch, Musicologist Edward Jablonski shows why the queries persist on the 50th anniversary of Gershwin's death. George's father, Leatherworker Morris Gershovitz, thought Ira, the oldest of his four children, was the most talented -- until George, nearly two years younger, appropriated the keyboard with an amalgam of brashness and genius. The boy abandoned school at 15 and quickly rose from Manhattan streets to the clamorous offices of song publishers. Sometimes his talent outstripped his ambition. When he auditioned for a job with Irving Berlin, the composer turned him down with some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up Tunes GERSHWIN | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...told him after the murder that they had no reason to fear the investigating commission set up in the Interior Ministry. Piotrowski said that it would be made up of the "right people" and mentioned General Zenon Platek, director of the religious affairs department, and secret-police colonel Zbigniew Jablonski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland Hints of a Contract From the Top | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...just a bad weekend. Something out of the ordinary happened, " says University of Arizona paleontologist David Jablonski. "It may have taken hundreds of years, but there is no question that there have been mass extinctions which shaped life, in unpredictable ways...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Tracking the Death Star | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

...homes across the country as he stepped from the plane at Warsaw's Okecie Airport. Clutching his white skullcap against a sudden breeze, John Paul made his way down to the tarmac and, in his traditional gesture of respect, knelt to kiss the asphalt. While Polish President Henryk Jablonski looked on, the Pope explained with emotion that he had kissed the ground, "as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother." Said John Paul: "I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Native | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...People are frightened and upset about crime in the streets," says William Bailey, a Cleveland State University sociologist. "Nothing seems to be done to solve the problem, so the feeling grows that if we can't cure murderers, something we can do is kill them." Jim Jablonski, 44, a Chicago steelworker, speaks for a lot of furious citizens. "Murderers got to pay," he says. For him the next sentence follows self-evidently: "I say, fry the bastards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death Penalty: An Eye for an Eye | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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