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...cocktail aeon in the Elysian Fields, and the composers gathered at Calliope's. "Let whoever will make a nation's laws," said someone for the millionth time, "if I can make its songs." There was a silence. "Who makes Amer ica's songs these days?" asked Stephen Foster. George Gershwin removed his cigar. "No one you know," he said. "Or probably ever will." "It depends what you mean by the word song," observed Jerome Kern mildly...
...chlorpromazine and Frenquel, and can snap a patient out of an artificial psychosis within minutes.) On a Revolving Cloud. Among a dozen U.S. medical teams researching LSD, one is headed by Dr. Fabing at Cincinnati's Christ Hospital. It takes, he found, only about one seven-hundred-millionth of a healthy young man's weight in LSD to produce a model psychosis lasting five to ten hours. In experiments recorded by a movie camera (see cut}, a psychology student volunteer, age 23, took 100 micro-grams and wrote afterward: "I had very little by way of visual...
...still an inspiration, or at least a consolation: one of the most intricate of modern jazzmen, Pianist Dave Brubeck, played a tune at Manhattan's Basin Street that only two members of the audience recognized as Stardust, while in the dance hall around the corner, the ten-millionth blonde said. "Oooooh, listen, honey. They're playing our song...
...When the millionth Volkswagen beetled off a West German assembly line this month, Volkswagen workers were treated to 40,000 liters of beer, a cancan act from Paris and a speech frowning on the 40-hour week. "Work is much more satisfying than idleness," said Volkswagen President Heinz Nordhoff (TIME, Feb. 15, 1954). "It is not without good reason that the cycle of six working days and one Sunday has been in existence for thousands of years. No doubt, a Saturday off would be a nice gift to many but a curse to others. Most people live only to escape...
VOLKSWAGEN'S MILLIONTH, rhinestone-studded and gold-painted for the occasion, rolled off the assembly line last week. Supplying more than 40% of the German market already, the biggest German automaker will boost production another 20%, to 1,500 cars daily, to meet a growing demand both at home and abroad. Target for 1955 in the U.S.: 25,000 Volkswagens...