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Word: lullabye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus with a cynic's lullaby closed the final chapter-just 24 years ago this month-of one of the most tempestuous custody battles ever fought. The baby was eleven-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt, solemn-faced, button-cute heiress to a $4,000,000 trust fund, headlined in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Haunting Echo | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

From the "hungry i" (The Kingston Trio; Capitol LP). One of the most gifted trios in years offers an artfully mixed bag of selections from a San Francisco nightclub program. Included are a French lullaby, a calypso number, a Zulu hunting chant and a stunningly arranged version of They Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

In her debut in Manhattan's Town Hall, Armenian-born Mezzo-Soprano Doloukhanova, 39, strode onstage aglitter with diamonds, and swathed in pink silk wrappings. Her program included Russian songs (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff), Armenian folk songs, Schubert and Strauss lieder, operatic arias from Rossini and Mozart, even one English air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soviet Singer | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Across the unhappy island, barbed-wire barricades cocoon key buildings, seal Greek and Turkish Cypriots into separate quarters. British Tommies man machine guns on the minarets of Turkish mosques. Cyprus' nightly lullaby is the baying of search dogs. When the sirens signal curfew, the island's economy is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Bitter Breakdown | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

A gypsy woman first sang the song to Folklorist John A. Lomax in Fort Worth, and in no time he made it one of the most famous cowboy songs in the land. Traveling in a model A Ford, with his young son Alan as an occasional companion, he took the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Just Folk | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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