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Patrons of the Blue Angel nightclub, accustomed to hearing these lines sung with folk-song innocence, were wondering last week whether they ever did understand the old song. They were concentrating on Eartha Kitt, a Negro newcomer to Manhattan night life. Eartha launched into the song with a voice of husky sweetness, but before she had gone very far she was wailing out the lyrics in a first-class imitation of jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salty Eartha | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

There are some nice, hummable songs, and there is attractive singing, notably by lithe Eartha Kitt. The dancing is refreshingly clean and cool; even the ballet numbers maintain a certain air of the ballroom. By ordinary revue standards, New Faces gets by very well; what it falls short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, may 26, 1952 | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...Apparently you have never heard of St. Catherine's, home of the perennial winners of the Mann Cup, emblematic of world lacrosse supremacy. St. Kitt's "Athletics" are world lacrosse champions in the same sense as the St. Louis "Cardinals" are champions in the baseball world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...weekend hundreds of soldiers and sailors, WAVES and WACs report to the Canteen for free music lessons and instruments to rehearse on. In a year, 45 volunteer teachers have given more than 3,000 lessons, and some 12,000 servicemen have practiced in the Canteen atop the Homer L. Kitt music store in downtown Washington. (The store donates the space, and keeps the 100-odd available instruments in repair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cubbyhole Canteen | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Filariasis rarely kills the victim directly. The St. Kitt's deaths were due to superimposed infections. No drug is known which will rid the infected human of the worms or their larvae. All that Dr. Pawan could recommend on St. Kitt's was that the inhabitants prevent mosquitoes, the intermediate hosts of infection, from breeding (by filling or oiling stagnant puddles and pools) and that they screen themselves from bites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: St. Kitt's Thread Worm | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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