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When the band struck up the jazz classic Muskrat Ramble over Los Angeles' KTTV, Lyricist Ray Gilbert winced to hear his own words replaced by others: "You're gonna love this coffee, man oh man ..." Last week Gilbert sued for $300,000 from the sponsor (Hills Brothers Coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Jingle Jangle | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

In 1951 Denny McCluggage suddenly became dissatisfied with San Francisco ("I felt I owned it"), and set out for New York to "tilt with skyscrapers." For the first six months, the skyscrapers knocked her flat; while laying siege to the Herald Tribune (because another woman, far-traveling Marguerite Higgins, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tomboy with a Typewriter | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Like most calypso singers, Kontiki learned his trade on the streets, where, as one of 16 children in a poor family, he spent most of his time. Unlike most, he devoted himself from the start strictly to politics rather than other topical matters, praising democrats and making fun of strongmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Singing the News | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Divorced. Frank Loesser, 46, famed words-and-musicman (Guys and Dolls) and indefatigable (1,500 songs) tunesmith (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Jingle-Jangle-Jingle, etc.); by Mary Alice ("Lynn") Loesser, 41, tall, blonde co-producer of Loesser's current Broadway hit, The Most Happy Fella; after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

A BIG CLOUD of dust is rising up above the cathode horizon, and soon the biggest passel of straight-shooting, clean-living Westerners ever to jingle on screen will ride into TV. In its insatiable search for material, television is transforming the traditional horse opera into the "adult western." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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