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Betty Carter. Since her singing debut in 1946, Betty Carter has sung mostly in clubs, most of them in New Jersey. She built up a reputation as a "musicianly" and controlled singer, but, except for tour dates with Miles Davis in '59 and with Sonny Rollins in '64, has enjoyed only limited exposure. Thirty years ago she was "Betty Be-Bop" Carter. If your memory doesn't go back that far, you can see her at the Jazz Workshop through...
What makes this fear different is that it's fun. Fun enough to inspire a New Jersey ice-cream stand to rename its flavors sharklate, finilla and jawberry. It seems that the recent demand for jawbones at $50 a set is a kind of rejoining, as though people want to grab the slippery monster and set it up like some fishy Baal...
...fears may be exaggerated. At least three states -New York, New Jersey and Arizona- have had similar laws on the books for half a century without such sinister effect. As San Francisco Supervisor Alfred J. Nelder put it, "Kids are human beings and have rights...
Died. James Chapin, 88, American painter; of an apparent heart attack; in Toronto. Chapin's spare, muscular style, which he called "environmental realism" developed during five years of sketching the Marvins, a hardscrabble New Jersey farm family he lived with in the mid-1920s. Beginning in 1955, he painted dozens of TIME covers, including Adlai Stevenson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Boris Pasternak and Edward Hopper...
...Cornell Law School Dean Roger Cramton, the group ranges from conservative to moderate liberal -though there are no women or representatives from poverty groups. Still, one legal-services activist pronounced himself "pleasantly surprised" after meeting the members. Said Melville Miller, director of Middlesex County Legal Services in New Jersey: "They seemed interested, open-minded and genuinely committed to poor people...