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The words & music might have been a mild shock to turn-of-the-century parishioners, but they were everyday business-and mighty good business-to Columbia Records, which leased old Adams Presbyterian five years ago for a recording studio. And for Rosemary Clooney, the long-legged blonde at the microphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girl in the Groove | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

But for all his skills and sufferings, Narayan failed in his first purpose. Recently he got to thinking that if he performed a really long penance, God might be pleased enough to bring "peace to the world." A fortnight ago, frail, black-bearded, 56-year-old Narayan let himself down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Inner Urge | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Cartoonist Hank Ketcham, 32, has realized a father's dream: he converted his troubles with his squirmy, spring-legged, 4½-year-old son into a $40,000-a-year net asset. Ketcham's Dennis the Menace is syndicated in 112 U.S. newspapers and in 52 others all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Friendly Home Wrecker | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

And Back Again. For several years Matisse dropped his knife. When he picked it up again, the cycle was the same: first realism, then a- gradual swing forward until his bronzes became as stylized as his canvases. Matisse's Head of Marguerite (1915) is sharp and delicate, his Large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter with a Knife | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

By this week rangy (6 ft. 3 in.) Ken McGregor had yet to win a set from bandy-legged little (5 ft. 6 in.) Pancho Segura; the Aussies were just holding their own in the doubles; and Sedgman had to come from behind, after taking one of the worst shellackings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Pros. V. New | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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