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...eager to learn. When the soft blue lights came up on her last week, she tilted back the high-cheekboned, full-lipped face on the swan neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr in an upbeat All or Nothing at All. In a white fringed shawl Songstress Carroll sat with a single spot shining on her tawny face while she sang a moving set of folk songs with powerfully restrained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Bottom of the Top | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...each weekday, two Cadillacs purr up to the front and rear doors of the modern, lawn-surrounded factory of the Kaynar Corp. in Los Angeles. Brainy, lightly muscled Kenneth Reiner. 43, Kaynar's president, gets out at the rear door. Brawny (5 ft. 8 in.. 165 Ibs.), outgoing Frank Klaus, 44, vice president and treasurer, gets out at the front. Each is careful not to meet the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Successful Schizophrenia | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Purr Usual? In Lansing, Mich., the State Journal ran a classified ad: "Beagle Pup Lost. Black and brown, 6 mos. old male, red collar, answers to 'kitty, kitty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Cats are nice too, less popular perhaps than their canine friends, possibly colder, less affectionate, but nice all the same. Beautiful, too, so clean, soft, agile, so pleasant when they purr. Of course black cats are the object of no little disdain, but we like them too. Still, a Harvard House is scarcely their proper place, and House dining halls are far too frequently targets of feline invasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crass Menagerie | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

Playwright Kurnitz remains Broadway to the core, He is not the only recent playwright whose treatment of a stylish professional world, by comparison with The Man Who Came to Dinner, for example, seems raspingly lacking in style. Once More, With Feeling has none of the stealthy purr-and-scratch of music-world wit; rascals are roughnecks, megalomaniacs commit mayhem, bull fiddles see red. There is not a touch of urbane caricature, it is all plebeian cartooning; and even on its own would be broad popular terms, the play has no real Broadway bounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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