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...last week, the Nimers turned in early. Waking in the night, Melvin Jr. rubbed open his eyes, saw standing over his bed a strange man in overalls and white mask. The boy screamed for his mother; Loujean dashed in from the next bedroom. The stranger wheeled, flicked a knife; Loujean staggered to her bed with wounds in breast and abdomen. Slight (5 ft. 7 in.), Dr. Nimer leaped at the assailant, wrestled the man down the stairs, into the kitchen. Beside a telephone the doctor collapsed with chest and abdomen ripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAMILIES: Intruder in the Night | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...something sharp cut into my arm. My husband and his friend were on the ground with a pile of colored men on them. A taxi swerved onto the pavement and scattered the blackies. When my husband got up he was holding his back, and I saw there was a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Cry in the Streets | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...recreation of Kurt Weill's jazzy, bitterly ironic score, with Singer Lenya herself heading a first-rate cast. Every sardonic, vulgar accent is in place, and despite the music's familiarity, it sounds as fresh and sharp in this version as if Mack had a Drand new knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Sep. 8, 1958 | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...European jazz circuit, but last year he came home with a pain in his chest. In an operation to remove a lung cancer, Big Bill's vocal cords were damaged, and the full, gentle voice was reduced to a whisper. Last May he went under the knife once more, for a brain tumor, and he never sang again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Best of the Blues | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...sees it, the soft green leaf may well be a nettle in disguise, and danger lurks on all sides. It is hard to trust people-"If they slap me on the back, maybe the next time they slap me they'll have a knife." On the other hand, so few people are really grateful to him: "It's not that I need credit. But somewhere along the line the dog should be patted on the head." If some neighborhood toughs honk their horns outside his house to annoy him, he speaks of being "hounded by degenerates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Late-Night Affair | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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