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...home--about 11 o'clock on a Sunday nite--several weeks ago. I live on Beacon, a few doors down from Dartmouth. The street is poorly illuminated due to the heavy foliage of the trees--esp. as you approach the intersections. It was deserted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HOLSTER AND A PIPE SAVED HIM | 11/28/1962 | See Source »

...wrestling alligators. Within the white walls of Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel the lazier man could maneuver round the clock from the Hulahut through the Bam-Boo-La Lounge, the Veranda Room, the Tropical Room, the Chuck Wagon ("All You Can Eat for Only $1.95"), Ye Noshery,- the Nite-Cap Lounge and the Pagoda Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: A Place in the Sun | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Deep South, which to many music merchants has long looked like arid territory, a profitable but unsung musical monster is flourishing. Billed as "Gospel and Spiritual All-Nite Sing," it is colloquially called "gospel boogie" or, more earthily, "jumping for Jesus." It takes the form of regular shows in Southern cities, featuring vocal quartets and attended by capacity crowds who come to be entertained and, occasionally, converted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prayers & Popcorn | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...poets' corner until word got out that Mrs. Stevenson planned to convert the basement and garden of her house into a bohemian bistro. Chicago Gossip Columnist Irving ("Kup") Kupcinet confided in the Sun-Times that Mrs. Stevenson planned "a European style cafe [with] a combination of theatre and nite-club performances." The neighborhood exploded. In vain did Mrs. Stevenson and friends explain that the basement club would be private, the garden performances Shakespearean and very high-toned. "I could sue some people, including some newspapers," cried Mrs. Stevenson, "but I shan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Quality Street | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Each of the twin boys in Chicago's University of Illinois Hospital was as cute as a button. At 15 months they both had handsome, well-formed bodies, twinkling, dark blue eyes and bewitching smiles. They loved to play pat-a-cake, could say "Hi," "Mama," "Dada," and "Nite-nite." They had just learned to say "Frog" too, because mother & father had brought them each a rubber frog. Rodney Dee Brodie was a bit smaller than Roger Lee Brodie, so Rodney got more attention. This made Roger mad, and he showed it by swatting Rodney across the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Brains, One Vein | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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