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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came the signals, sounding like hoarse violin notes at A above middle C. By that time, 1 p.m. Moscow time Oct. 4 (6 a.m. New York time), Lunik III was already 67,000 miles from the earth. Britain's big radio station at Jodrell Bank, instructed where to look by a telegram from Moscow, picked up the signal too and held it for 20 minutes. Then the violin notes stopped suddenly as if shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunik III | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...first contestant was a tall blonde from Oregon with a willowy Grace Kelly look. When she rose from the piano after playing Brahms's Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, the ovation was led by the usherettes at the rear of the hall: only three years ago. Pianist Tana Bawden had been a Carnegie Hall usherette herself. But after the slim, curly-haired young man from St. Louis played Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, the ovation was even louder: at intermission a Carnegie Hall stagehand was making book on him in the lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fanfare for Piano | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...shuddery look at Jean Cocteau, in which France's brilliant jack-of-arts sits tickling his lips with a stalk of lily of the valley, calculating his audience as coldly as a lizard calculates a fly-a portrait of the infant prodigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peeping Tome | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...look at things in bloom Fifty springs is little room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Things in the City | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Look Back in Anger. The angry young hero (Richard Burton) boils over with indiscriminate rage at religion, the Sunday Times, his mother-in-law. Somehow the John Osborne play seemed saner on the stage than it does on the screen-but with Claire Bloom and Gary Raymond to help, the movie has its moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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