Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Princess Margaret, who usually plays the field in picking her escorts, excited Mayfair society by dating Mark Bonham-Carter, British army hero of World War II, three evenings in a row. What intrigued the self-appointed matchmakers even more was the tune which, by request, a cabaret singer kept repeating: Let's Do It ("Let's fall in love"). On a later evening, Margaret deserted Mark to attend a benefit ice show at London's Empress Hall, was snapped by a photographer as she entered, smiling but without escort...
...named Oscar Peterson is one of the world's finest jazz pianists. As a touring star of the troupe called Jazz at the Philharmonic (TIME, March 2), he has fascinated audiences on three continents, won Down Beat magazine's "best piano player" poll four years in a row. Last week, at Los Angeles' Tiffany Club," he settled his huge (6 ft. 2 in., 250 Ibs.) bulk on the bench, spread his long, spatulate fingers over the keys, and gave his doting audience a typical sample of piano a la Peterson...
...main trends of the year, non-fiction outsold fiction, children's books had a boom (notwithstanding their dully predictable tendency to preach good behavior in barnyard parables), and a lot of good reading continued to turn up more or less unheralded. Finally, for the second year in a row, the Revised Standard Version of the Bible sold more than 1,000,000 copies, to lead all other current books...
Objection Sustained. In Gastonia, N.C., Judge George Patton declared a mistrial when a front-row juror broke into Defense Attorney P. C. Froneberger's loud-voiced arguments to complain: "I don't want you hollering in my face...
...that one might have been in church." She also smoked marijuana in a New York hotel apartment with a group of initiates. One dark woman had an abandoned look and tears in her eyes, and kept saying she was "madly happy." Mlle. de Beauvoir smoked three cigarettes in a row. The taste "was sharp and none too agreeable." Longing for the happiness of the dark woman, she smoked away, but nothing happened. She simply went away with a burning throat...