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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superb technician, Jonah makes the weariest material sound fresh; he can float out a beautifully fluid legato with every note fully etched, or rasp out a low, "dirty" tone while keeping the melody under rigid control, or punch out a bright, high note and linger over it with a heavy vibrato. The arrangements are so simple that the customers, as Chicago Disk Jockey Marty Faye notes, "can sit at a table and chat and still enjoy Jonah...
...ELECTRIC CO. will supply power-generating turbines to South Dakota's Big Bend dam. After Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization reversed previous ruling that national security would be endangered if foreign company received contracts (TIME, June 22), Government accepted $6,512,331 bid of British firm, rejecting low U.S. offer of $9,301,815 by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp...
...smooth skin, spring-in-England coloring and regal carriage give her subjects cause to call her beautiful. Her voice is clear-toned, with a still youthful ring; her movements are slow and assured. She wears her royal costumes and glittering gowns with majesty and grace; yet in tweeds and low-heeled shoes she gives out a no-nonsense warmth that can put any housewife in Winnipeg or Salisbury at ease...
...present number of the animals is comfortably low. But the survivors are multiplying like rabbits, and their offspring are apt to be resistant to myxomatosis. Forgetting their sentimental attachment to the rabbits of child literature, platoons of Englishmen, organized in 200 government-approved rabbit-clearance societies, are now using nets, cyanide, traps and shotguns to maintain the status...
...unanimity, they concluded that 1) success in the scientific age is not simply a matter of intellect; 2) U.S. education is distressingly geared to uncovering the "bright boy" who can dutifully find the one right answer to a problem; 3) schools ignore the rebellious "inner-directed" child who scores low on IQ tests because they bore him; 4) teachers not only make no effort to nurture the creative rebel but usually dislike him. More than 70% of the "most creative," reported Educational Psychologist Jacob W. Getzels of the" University of Chicago in a startling guesstimate, are never recognized...