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...Newport. Curiously, the Democrats were getting some help from Dwight Eisenhower, too. In a week when the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Republican Governor of the nation's most populous state challenged him on foreign policy and national defense, when the Russians torpedoed the Geneva disarmament conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), and when the Gallup poll reported a sharp drop in his popularity (from 68% approval to 61%), Dwight Eisenhower announced that he was planning to go off to Newport, R.I. this week for a month's vacation...
...forced sailors to lash themselves to their craft. But fair weather or foul, the short, stubby yawl out of Annapolis was the master of the Atlantic, clipping off miles with the regularity of an ocean liner. When the fleet of 135 boats finished the 635-mile thrash from Newport to Bermuda last week, the overall winner, for an unprecedented third straight time, was Finisterre, owned and skippered by a shrewd, affable, literary-minded salt named Carleton Mitchell...
...such a big way that the Germans are now recognized by many as Europe's most frenzied buffs. Last week the German jazz season was in full swing: thousands gathered in Berlin for the Amateur Jazz Festival, following a Frankfurt bash that made the U.S.'s Newport Festival seem like a Sunday musicale...
Jazz on a Summer's Day. During 85 woolly minutes at the Newport Jazz Festival, a novice director gives his audience some solid sound, and a way-in view of the way out: Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan and like that...
Jazz on a Summer's Day. During 85 woolly minutes at the Newport Jazz Festival, first-time Director Bert Stern gives his audience some solid sound, and a way-in view of the way out: Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan and like that...