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...there. To enhance Bayreuth as a cultural force of worldwide significance, Wieland broke with the old chauvinistic policies toward performers and imported singers and conductors of all nationalities. Bayreuth's postwar glory, in fact, rests largely on the shoulders of American singers and conductors: George London, James King, Jess Thomas, Grace Bumbry, Thomas Stewart, Thomas Schippers and scores of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Clouds over Valhalla | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

EDGAR CAYCE: THE SLEEPING PROPHET by Jess Stearn. 280 pages. Doubleday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the Public Will Buy | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

Kentuckian Edgar Cayce was a semiliterate health evangelist who boasted miraculous curative and prophetic powers. He died at 67 in 1945, unsung except by a few equally obscure biographers. Freelance Author Jess Stearn has rediscovered Cayce, and strains mightily to prove that his batting average was close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the Public Will Buy | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...barge, and the gold lame could have papered the Met walls. On the whole, the fashion was strictly haute, although here and there a kooky costume or two dazed the 3,000 or so beholders who checked over the operagoers as they arrived. The wife of Met Tenor Jess Thomas, for example, was decked out in a black dress that was drenched in 15 Ibs. of floorlength gold chains (while a flack followed breathlessly, tossing out mimeographed press releases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Lord of the Manor | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

Born. To Marina Oswald Porter, 24, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, and Kenneth Jess Porter, 28, electronics engineer and her former Dallas neighbor: their first child, a boy (each has two children from previous marriages); in Richardson, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 15, 1966 | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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