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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handsome and dashing Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma,* had known many triumphs since his father's downfall. The stigma of his German ancestry had long since been erased in the process of anglicizing Battenberg to Mountbatten. Though once dismissed as a mere playboy, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Vow Is Kept | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

Like his father, Louis Mountbatten had felt the sting of vicious tongues, as envious enemies gossiped freely about his undue influence at court and the purported leftist leanings of himself and his wife Edwina. When the first rumor of his new appointment leaked out some months ago, Lord Beaverbrook protested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Vow Is Kept | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

The top U.S. theatrical reference book is the Best Plays series, begun in 1919 by the late Burns Mantle. Available this week: The Best Plays of 7955-7954 (Dodd, Mead; $5) edited-for the second season-by TIME'S drama critic, Louis Kronenberger. Since last season was memorable for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Broadway's Best | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

They listen to some of the strangest and loveliest music ever played since jazz was born. They listen in garish cellars and august concert halls. They listened last summer in Los Angeles' Zardi's, last month in Boston's Storyville and Manhattan's Basin Street, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man on Cloud No. 7 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

What Is "Modern"? By now, the birth and growth of jazz have become American folklore. The critics like to call it "music of protest": it started with slave chants, work songs, blues, gaudy Negro funeral parades in New Orleans−those noisy expressions of bravado in the face of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man on Cloud No. 7 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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