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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official, have had little success in repressing the exhibitionism. Most recently, the San Francisco police raided two North Beach nightclubs, the Condor and the Off-Broadway, and dragged both proprietors into court. The Off-Broadway, which offers topless waitresses along with such name performers as Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton and Trini Lopez, was accused of operating "a lewd and obscene exhibition" and of "conduct outraging public decency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners & Morals: Legal Libertarianism | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

Died. Major General John Kenton Hester, 48, commander of the U.S. 17th Air Force in Germany, a World War II combat ace who flew 50 missions against Japanese bases in China, later served in staff posts before assuming his final command six months ago; of brain injuries suffered when his parachute failed during a training jump from 1,250 ft.; in Wiesbaden, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 16, 1965 | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

DANCE CRAZE (Capitol) is a history seminar, with laconic directions on the jacket for twelve dances ranging from the waltz (played by Guy Lombardo) to the black bottom (Pee Wee Hunt), the calypso (Lord Flea), the tango (Nelson Riddle), and the creep (Stan Kenton). Giving instructions for the Charleston was too difficult and the jacket writer gave up, suggesting, Ask your mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: : Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

Many collapsed-Stan Kenton jumped ship again last year-but those that have survived now seem to be gaining some of their old popularity. Despite the melancholy effort of swimming up stream against history, they are man aging a modest renaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Big-Band Renaissance | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...Maynard Ferguson, 35, plays the most complex and modern arrangements of any big band since Kenton's, though Ferguson sometimes swamps his sidemen with his outer-space approach to the trumpet. Every so often, like Kirk Douglas in Young Man with a Horn, he gets up and tries for the groovy sound of an ambulance siren. But most of the time the boys roll along smoothly in spite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Big-Band Renaissance | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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