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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...renovated areas, much classification and labelling needs to be done. The casts of the marvelous steles found at Copan are barley visible in the gloom of the end of the third-floor hallway. The public is naturally only mystified by the great casts of which many are unidentified and none is explained by an easily legible descriptive essay...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Peabody Collection: Anthropologists' Delight | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

...other male singer is Walt Winter, Swarthmore '56, a medical student with a West Indian background. As a singer, Winter is somewhat more impressive than Jones, but none of the three can be said to have an exceptionally outstanding voice. The charm of the show is rather in the overall composition than in the quality of singing itself...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: 3 Folk Sing | 5/19/1959 | See Source »

...sportsmanlike was the President in turn, that just before last week's election he announced over the radio that he would vote for his organist opponent himself. He could well afford the gesture; of all Africa's political figures, none except the Emperor of Ethiopia has shown greater staying power than "Shad" Tubman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Old Pro | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Harrah's has long since learned to vary its shows by the clock-organ music from 6 a.m. until noon, building to wild, brassy jazz when things heat up after midnight.) All Bill Harrah's dealers, half of whom are women, are trained in his own school. None of them are allowed to smoke, drink or chew gum on duty; careful research has even chosen what Harrah considers to be the most effective bad-breath tablets (Binaca) to be used while working. A Hollywood designer was called in to dress the girl dealers, and a 24-page gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Mother Lode | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...city, William stayed on the farm. "I have no use for cars except as something to ride in," said William, and when his tractor sales agency went bankrupt in the Depression, he was as good as his word, asked no help from his multimillionaire brother and got none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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