Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Ain't the Blues (Jimmy Rushing & band; Vanguard). The indestructible Mr. Five-by-Five of the old Basie Band shouts some familiar blues and ballads-My Friend Mr. Blues, Pennies from Heaven-with a voice like a curdled trumpet backed by a solid boomp-a-cha beat. Jimmy sometimes wheezes now, but his talent for reading a message of ageless evil into the simplest of lyrics-"Sometimes I think I will/Then again I think I won't" -is as strong as it ever...
Other American offerings at the Brussels World's Fair may stir assorted snorts, crank complaints and real misgivings, but U.S. musical fare is a solid hit. Against such exotic competition as the Peking Opera, Congoese Dancers and the Bolshoi Ballet, the U.S. gets top marks for a first-rate music and dance program on a shoestring budget. "The Americans," wrote De Standaard, "are producing musical activity that can truly be called unique...
...undistinguished troupe: in-and-out Al Worthington (8-5), flashy but unsteady Mike McCormick (7-1), and Junkballer Stu Miller, whose slow stuff is so slow that Announcer Russ Hodges once cracked: "There's one that almost turned around and went back." A pennant-contender club needs three solid starters, and the missing man is Righthander Ruben Gomez, a 15-game winner last year who has been blasted consistently in recent starts. Of his rickety pitching staff, Rigney says hopefully: "All they have to do is go out there and hold 'em for awhile, because this club...
...working precisely in reverse. Leading and feeding the recovery from recession was the sharpest rise in farm income since 1947, the greatest ever without a war. At the end of the second quarter of 1958, farm income had jumped to a seasonally adjusted rate of $13.8 billion annually, a solid $1 billion more than the rate for the previous three months-and a fantastic $3.1 billion more than the $10.7 billion rate of second quarter...
MISSILE CONTRACTS to develop Air Force's solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM, with variable range of 500 to 5,500 miles (TIME, March 10), will go to Avco Manufacturing Corp. for nose cone, North American Aviation, Inc. for guidance system, Thiokol Chemical Corp. and Aerojet-General Corp. for engines...