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...piano teachers could not wipe off her unconscious grimaces. But for a long while she managed to hold the rest of her contortions in check. An agent got her a job in a Dearborn Street gin mill-the kind of place where she could show up in sweater and skirt and had to keep her purse on top of the piano-and soon she was a big name in jazz, playing the top spots across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Wild but Polished | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...game was the fact that Penn fumbled the ball away three times, while the Crimson did not fumble once. The first Penn fumble came late in the first quarter when end Hal Keohane alertly fell on a loose ball which Penn quarterback Hal Musick lost as he tried to skirt right...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Varsity Defeated Quakers Last Fall | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

Whoops. Pioneer's destination was the skirt of the moon's gravitational field. Only during three days of each month-and within that period, only during 18 fleeting minutes of each day-were the earth and moon in such relationship to each other that Pioneer, precisely fired and guided, would pass ahead of the moon, sweep slowly into her field and take up an orbit (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: A Few Seconds on Infinity | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Munro has spent much of the last two days drilling the team in play around the opposition's goal in an effort to correct weaknesses the Crimson exhibited against Amherst. The major innovation is an "inside outside" attack to skirt opposing fullbacks so that, as Munro puts it, "our smaller forwards won't get stepped on again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Plays Today At Williams | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

...office. It was those fuselage-hugging sheath dresses she wore. Those doe eyes. That platinum blonde hair. And all that Hollywood mascara. "Tone down your appearance," warned Pan Am. So Joan toned down the mascara and eye shadow, sacked her sheaths in favor of a white blouse and black skirt. But she drew the line at a suggestion to switch her hair color to a more businesslike strawberry blonde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Beauty & the Boss | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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