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Word: recordsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Who makes hu . . . humidity?" asks a little girl in a current subway advertisement. "Mother Nature," answers the advertiser, New York City's Consolidated Edison electric power company, "... heat, too! And when she combines them for any long stretch-whew! Many thousands of air conditioners run almost constantly, keeping Con...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Lights Out | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Tipped off by the Dum Dum arrests and by Hong Kong police, who discovered the names of BOAC employees among the records of a suspect Hong Kong "businessman," BOAC moved in its security chief, a former Scotland Yard detective named Donald ("Flying") Fish. He discovered that some crew members carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Smuggler's Delight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Lata learned her trade long before she ever saw a movie. She roamed India with her actor father, joined his touring company at the age of seven, was singing Indian classical music in public at eight, was barely 13 when she landed her first playback job. For a while, producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA ABROAD: Indispensable Queen | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

¶ U.S. movie attendance for the last week of July topped all records, as 82,300,000 people went to the flicks to cool off. A second record from the computers of Hollywood's Pollster Albert Sindlinger: 52,100,000 of the moviegoers were found at drive-ins, largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOX OFFICE: For the Books | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

The wonderful thing about music is how it manages to filter past the most heavily soundproofed door. Though U.S. jazz as such is not officially banned in Russia, the culture commissars take pains to ridicule it as "bourgeois decadency"; concerts are nonexistent and nightclub jazz is discouraged; the importation and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Those Cool Reds | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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