Word: marly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capitol was one of the first to dress up record jackets with brightly colored photographs and prints. Columbia hired top artists (among them: Ben Shahn, Leo Lionni, Antonio Frasconi) to design its album covers. For the lower-browed mar ket, Decca tied in the sales campaign with popular magazines, last week spun out its Esquire series of albums decorated with long-stemmed Petty girls...
...useful sprinter named Big Rush romped off with the fifth race at California's Del Mar race track one day last week and paid $15.70 for $2. Even those outdoor investors who had backed the wrong horse cheered the result. For Johnny Longden, the wrinkled little jock on board the winner, had just won his 4,8705th race and thus tied Sir Gordon Richards' alltime record for riding race winning thoroughbreds. Less than two hours later, Johnny won again. He picked up a big horse named Arrogate and heaved him under the wire...
...when I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased," wrote Anne Morrow Lindbergh lightly in her bestselling Gift from the Sea (TIME, Mar. 21, 1955). But writing poetry has been a serious concern of Mrs. Lindbergh's since her girlhood. "When I was young, I felt so small/And frightened, for the world was tall," ran one of her early verses. The poems of her 303 and 403, collected here for the first time, show that, as she grew out of those girlish fears, she also grew to be courageously at home in the world...
...KIEFER Del Mar, Calif...
...Mexico's Peter Hurd. A LIFE correspondent during World War II, Hurd has painted on all five continents, but the people and scenes he likes best to portray are the ranch folk, the sun-blazed desert and the bare mountains near his New Mexican ranch (TIME color page, Mar. 3, 1952). His precise tempera paintings of the U.S. Southwest and its people are owned by such leading museums as New York City's Metropolitan, Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson and the National Gallery in Edinburgh. For Hurd, a classical-music fan, the Ellington assignment...