Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eyuboglu works best between midnight and 3 a.m.-"almost painting in my sleep." Lately he has busied himself with a variety of mediums: temperas, mosaics, and wood blocks for printing curtains and handkerchiefs. "The possibilities are limitless," he murmurs, absently dabbling a design in his coffee saucer. Business people are beginning to see the possibilities in Eyuboglu himself; negotiations are under way for a show of his art in Philadelphia, and the new Hilton Hotel being built in Istanbul will be decorated with Eyuboglu curtains...
...suggested that TIME do a story on Reno's famed Harold's Club as a successful business enterprise. The editors thought it was a good idea, told him to go ahead. When his research was almost completed, McCulloch was taken to the hospital for a midnight emergency appendectomy. By coincidence, TIME'S San Francisco Bureau Chief Al Wright arrived in Reno the next day, learned that McCulloch was temporarily out of action, and picked up the urgent wire queries at Western Union. Says McCulloch: "When Wright arrived at the hospital to find out who he should...
...room and chatted until 9:30 or 10, when Ike was ready to go to bed. Once last week Ike stretched his evening out, sat up late for a bull session with Presidential Aide Robert Cutler and Special Counsel Bernard Shanley, who were in town briefly from Washington. About midnight, shortly before Cutler's plane left, the party broke up in a fashion not untypical of the American male. The "boys" barged in on Mamie, who had retired early, and sat around the bed teasing the mildly protesting First Lady...
Forewarned. The machinery of power had long ago passed to Mossadegh; almost all the Shah's allies and strongpoints had been enveloped and destroyed. At the end, only 700 of the Imperial Guard and one brigade were loyal to the palace. Shortly before midnight they donned helmets and took up arms against Mossadegh. They arrested three Cabinet members, including Foreign Minister Hussein Fatemi. With a few truckloads of troops, a colonel of the Imperial Guard set off for Mossadegh's house, with royal orders for the Premier's dismissal. Mossadegh's forces had been tipped...
...either a palpable atmosphere or a clear story line or both, without ever tripping over its danceable rhythm. With the precision of a Marine parade and the grace of a lace handkerchief waving on the sidelines, the big band runs through a notably moist version of Rain, a playful Midnight Sleighride, a dreamy April in Paris. Jazz-wise listeners only had an occasional sense of too much novelty for its own sake...