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...burlesque skits. As a barber, he uses a chamberpot for a shaving mug; on a rocket to the moon, he nuzzles a blonde stowaway; as a TV repairman, he pulls a battered corset from a TV set, crying: "Your condenser is weak!" Best example of Colonna's Klaxon charm: his screech-voiced assault on the popular song, My Heart Cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Explosions in a Cellar. For four weeks, patrons of New York's Paramount Theater have been pinned against its back wall by Stan Kenton's klaxon-loud "progressive" blasts. Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater. At 52nd and Broadway, the intersection of commercial acumen and "art" in popular music, the Clique Club opened its doors and let the mob in. Buddy Rich, a Tommy Dorsey alumnus and bop fellow traveler, shot spectacular explosions from his drums, and a velvet-skinned Negro named Sarah Vaughan squeezed her toothpaste-smooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bopera on Broadway | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel at the long-drawn echoes between Capes Trinity and Eternity-what Christopher Morley called "Yowling a klaxon at Eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: End of the Deep Water | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Kenny Delmar (real name: Kenneth Frederick Fay Howard), 36, radio's Klaxon-voiced "Senator Claghorn," and Alice Cochran Howard, 32, onetime ballet dancer: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: John Davies. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...high. The morning's "wups"* had been successful. Sailors lazed on upper decks, chatted about a forthcoming Atlantic cruise. Ahead, inside Sambro lightship, lay dense patches of fog, but that was nothing to worry about. The Micmac's radar was the most modern afloat. She sounded her klaxon, stepped briskly into a fog bank at 20 knots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Homecoming | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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