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Then a greying, grandmotherly woman wearing dancing slippers put a Strauss waltz on the phonograph and went to work. As always, the goal for Marian Chace, 62, the nation's leading dance therapist, was to make contact with the mentally ill, through music and movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dance Therapy | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Playhouse 90, TV Playwright Rod Serling told the story of a struggling 42-year-old TV playwright from Manhattan named Ernie Pandish, who sells a script and overnight becomes rich, famous and an s.o.b. Where once he listened to music while he worked (he apparently owned only one phonograph record, Swan Lake), now the only music heard is the snarling of his ego. He berates his wife (rather justly, it seemed to some viewers) for disliking all those Hollywood parties, and he fires his loyal, loving agent (well played by Jack Klugman) in order to get "representation" by a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Patterns | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Emerson Radio & Phonograph let its stockholders know that profits for 1958 should be ten times greater than the puny $138,431 it netted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: On the Upbeat | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Dunster has the highest per capita donation with $4.80, and Winthrop has the lowest at $2.20. Eliot with a total of $484.50 leads in the competition for the $20 gift in phonograph records offered by the Coop to the House with the highest total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive Meets Good Response | 12/3/1958 | See Source »

...There was sake, of course," reported the disgruntled American tourist in Tokyo last week, "but the girls seemed most interested in plying us with highballs. 'Let's dance!' one of them said, stubbing out her cigarette, and we all cha-chaed to a hi-fi phonograph. When we finished eating, another girl with a horse's laugh, said, 'Let's play baseball.' So we all got up and pretended to be hitting, catching and running: the object of the game was to bump rumps. Later the girls offered to dance for us. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Vanishing Geisha | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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