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Other pop and jazz records: Atom Bomb Baby (The Five Stars; Dot). A rocking, slack-mouthed salute to a terrifying mid-20th-century paragon who is "a million times hotter than TNT." A candidate for success in the jukebox and leather-jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...unpainted, poster-plastered little hut of a cafe outside the Gregg County seat of Longview in East Texas, a handful of teen-age Negroes drank soda pop, danced to the music of a beat-up jukebox, chattered happily just because it was Saturday night. Suddenly the cheerful inside noises were smeared by the snarl of a car outside, a sputtering of shots ("like a string of firecrackers," said one witness) and a scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Bad Day in Longview | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Tattered Dress (Universal-International) is a courtroom melodrama. The hero (Jeff Chandler), cast as "the greatest trial lawyer since Clarence Darrow," is a sort of jukebox genius who will sing almost any tune for almost anybody who provides the coin. When a young hellionaire (Philip Reed) murders his wife's boy friend. Lawyer Chandler finagles an acquittal. For the next hour or so the pattern of the plot looks like something perpetrated by a drunken silkworm. Is the sheriff (Jack Carson) the crook? Is the hero the villain? Is the lawyer the defendant? Does anybody care? Actor Chandler seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Divorced. Harold George (Harry) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born, Jamaica-schooled cinemactor (Carmen Jones) and jukebox favorite; by Psychologist Frances Marguerite Byrd Belafonte, 28; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

comes a few pages before Cobb Would Have Caught It, a poem as brash and contemporary as a jukebox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Eternal Riddles | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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