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It was at the age of three that Thomas Lanier Williams, later better known as Tennessee, told his first scary story. As his mother recalls it: "We used to go to North Carolina in the summer. The women folk would gather round the fireplace-it was cool there. We had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

In Munich, teen-agers sport peppermint-striped skirts whose hems bear the legend "Achtung, es wird getwistet" (Watch out, we're doing the twist) and wiggle to the recorded groanings of one Oliver Twist and his group, Die Happy Twisters. In West Berlin's jumping Eden

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Der Liszt Tvist | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Most designers snugged in waistlines and billowed skirts, perhaps to allow freedom to Twist. Everybody had his say about hemlines: Laroche and Cardin lowered theirs; Dessès, Patou, Crahay. Goma and Bohan stayed within striking distance of the kneecap. Other touches: almost every designer stuck ruffles on his models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Word from Paris | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

In thousands of Shinto shrines across Japan last week, sober-faced girls in white robes and vermilion skirts practiced the stately postures of the ritualistic Kagura dance. Musicians wearing eboshi (ceremonial headgear) thumped out an accompaniment on wooden drums, played the ancient ceremonial songs on reedy bamboo flutes. At Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kami Comeback | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

Barrels in the newly opened Habana Supermarket sprout stalks of green sugar cane; others are filled with hot peppers, avocados, rice and black beans. Spanish-language newspapers and magazines abound on the newsstands, and the air is pungent with the aroma of steaming black coffee. The sight of Cuban women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees: At War in Miami | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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