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...Democratic case is more complex. Stevenson is assumed to be far ahead if he wants it-and he is assumed to want it. But his support could melt if, for instance, Estes Kefauver won a startling string of primaries as he did in 1952-or if Averell Harriman, who looks like a more serious contender now than he did six months ago, continues to gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Significant Glimpse | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...world's strangest streams, the Mojave (pronounced Mohahvee) is born in the snow melt of the San Bernardinos, disappears underground, here and there marking its strange northward course by popping unaccountably above the .surface of the sand. At one place, east of Victorville, Calif., it forms a subterranean reservoir as big as Tahoe, the state's largest lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Desert,1955: A new way of life in the U.S. | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Most Intimate (Charlie Shavers, trumpet, and strings; Bethlehem). A skillful jazzman, whose muted flights were jewels of chamber jazz in the late '305, now playing wide-open. Backed by Sy Oliver's strings, Shavers' brazen tones soar, tumble and melt as they extract the moods of tunes by Harold Arlen and Johnny Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Jazz Records | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Since then the girls have worked as hard as ever. Gut-wrenching wind sprints, body-building exercises, clowning relays with the girls swimming in pajamas or blowing up balloons between laps, all combine to melt the teen-age fat from their hips, harden their midriffs and toughen their arms. Somehow they also find the strength to practice the fine points of flip turns and racing starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Reed Girls | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...symbolize civilization. The natives realize that instead of being dread magic and tools of humiliation, the Rantz line is really for laughs. Versatile Novelist Mankowitz, a scriptwriter, playwright and dealer in Wedgwood, is too soft a man for tough satire, and lets his shrewd observations on the human condition melt into sugary fantasy. In the end Laugh Till You Cry falls flat somewhere between Walter Mitty and Dean Swift, but it is good for an hour of fun and an occasional reflection on the perverseness of civilized life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Apr. 18, 1955 | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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