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The most ominous of many threats to the spirit of Christmas this year is a song manufacturer named Johnny Marks, president of an outfit known as St. Nicholas Music, Inc. In Christmases past, Marks has filled the holiday air with numbers like When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter, I Heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Christmas Rock | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Wisdom for Mankind. The curtain went down, soon went up again, and there on the stage was Eugene Ionesco himself, a Rumanian-born French citizen who answers the frequent charge that the bizarre (e.g., three-nosed) characters in his plays "come from nowhere" by saying that "they come from Everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: Oui, Non, Moi | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

The news from California made Republican hearts skip a beat. One week after election day, Vice President Dick Nixon moved into a steady 20,706-vote lead in his home state on the strength of the trickling count of absentee ballots. The switch of California's 32 electoral votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: What If? | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Behind frosted glass doors in a ramshackle former Masonic lodge building in Nashville, Tenn., sit the song peddlers. Their product, proclaimed in gilt letters on the door, is variously billed as "Wonder Music" or "Surefire Music" or "Tenn-Tex Music," but in the industry it is known simply as C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hoedown on a Harpsichord | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

Most of the faculty playwriting, however, has been done during the last 10 years. Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, came to Harvard as an instructor in 1950 when he was putting the final touches on his dramatization (written in collaboration with Louis O. Coxe) of Melville's Billy...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Faculty Write Plays | 11/12/1960 | See Source »

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