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Steamed-Up Antics. The Metropole's regular musicians like their job, partly because the work is steady and requires no traveling, partly because the Dixieland market has leveled off. The pay? "Ah," growls Red Allen happily, "the Metropole don't retard on the loot." Nor do the boys retard on the noise. Whatever the number, the decibel is mightier than the dolce. Dixieland's adolescent nights, with their soulful solos, apparently are lost in the dim past, now to be replaced mostly by steamed-up, middle-aged antics. When the two bands get together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dixie Slot | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Double Switch. In Dallas, a thief stole $290 from work clothes in a locker room, changed into a pair of stolen trousers, left the loot in his discarded pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...quibbling research,* immortalize the moment in 1513 when Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first recorded European to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean. Balboa's discovery led to the conquest of Peru, and by 1535 the Spaniards were feverishly carting the gold and silver loot of the luckless Incas over Panama's Camino Real (Royal Road) to the tall treasure galleons that sailed for Spain. Last week a 28-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant, who has already retraced Balboa's path, was completing his rediscovery of Panama's historic routes with a rugged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: The Conquerors' Trail | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Chester; Filmakers) is a crime-doesn't-pay movie that consists of one long chase complicated by another. The first begins with a smash-bang crash-out of six convicts from prison. The second begins soon after, when their wounded leader promises them a share of the loot he has hidden away if they do not abandon him. While the crooks pursue the hidden loot, the police pursue the crooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Tattletale Grey. In Baltimore, George W. Thomas and Oscar Purdie were arrested for robbing the Empire Laundry of $400 worth of shirts, sheets and bedspreads when they brought part of their loot back to the Empire for laundering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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