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...Fruit Juice Bar are a sullen lot. They convene each evening after the midnight show at the Casino and scowl into vegetable desserts and think...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Vegetable Generation | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...sense of duty and determination, who could not wait to grow up to his brothers' level. Typically, when a photographer was once posing the two brothers in their school clothes, little Egbert, not yet old enough for school, grabbed a book and crashed the picture with a mature scowl (see cut). He began earning money at 15. At 16, when his boss in the logging camp began calling him Ed, he gladly dropped the Egbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Is Murrow | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Special Justice. It will not occur if John McClellan can prevent it. To the job of preventing it he brings much more than his scowl and his voice; they are merely the sight and the sound of the controlled strength that makes McClellan one of the most respected members of the U.S. Senate and its top investigator. Into the arena of congressional investigation, where many a congressional head has been turned by headlines and TV time, McClellan brings a special kind of justice. It is the personal code of a man who has had to learn the hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Man Behind the Frown | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every man in the orchestra sat jaw-dropped in wonder, unable to make a sound). And best of all, as Reporter Paul Moor observed, "in the final rapturous climax of the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, he will scowl and thrash the orchestra up to the peroration, and then?while the men go on playing, of course?he will stand stricken for a few bars, his face turned toward the empyrean, his hands extended open to the stars, in a sort of ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wunderkind | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Professional Scowl. He turned his professional scowl on a big crowd in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Tuesday night. There, before 18,000 whooping party faithful, he called Nixon "President Eisenhower's hand-picked heir," got a thunderous no from his audience when he asked if Nixon was the man to whom the U.S. wanted to entrust "the great decisions about the H-bomb." He challenged the Administration's handling of the Suez Canal crisis and the Middle East situation, asserting that Russia's influence there is at a peak, that "the rising fires of Arab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Last Mile | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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