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Dates: during 1940-1949
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His own band, one of the first to play bop (two of his musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker), ended in failure. He gave it up when a booking agent, "one of those guys with the whip," jumped the band from Los Angeles to Baltimore. From there on, he went it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. B. Goes to Town | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Eckstine, a modest, soft-spoken man offstage, lives quietly, when autograph hounds let him, with his wife June and his collie "Crooner," in uptown Manhattan. His one recreation is golf. He started playing last year, now often goes direct to the course from his last show at 4 a.m. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. B. Goes to Town | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

His own pictures miss few of the hairs. Using the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting on wood panels, Hurd confines himself to precise portraits of people and places, dramatized by isolated figures, long shadows and cold, gleaming colors. The paintings that tell of the barren hills and washes, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nature's Lip | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

In actual fact, the Russians can do nothing about Bishop Dibelius short of using naked force; he can only be legally deposed by those who elected him-his fellow churchmen. His fellows lost no time last week making their own position clear. At a meeting of all Evangelical priests of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hour to Speak | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Sins of Imagination. White-robed, ascetic-looking Father Couturier, 51, his tonsure sharply outlined against his close-cropped head, his brown eyes bright with his own soaring imagination, has become the light and power of a small but significant movement among French artists. From the first, his primary concern has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Art for God's Sake | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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