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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miles Davis, "with red hair, green eyes and a black face-who plays piano like Ahmad Jamal." Trumpeter Davis is one of the more fervent admirers of the pianist whose group is currently the hottest trio in jazz. Its leader is neither red-haired nor green-eyed-but the spell he casts on his faithful followers, including many a fellow jazzman, sometimes suggests the arrival of the first Martian from outer space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Syncopated Silence | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...headline over an article on President William C. Pels of Bennington reads "Fels's Naptha" [July 6]. Maybe that's the way they spell Naphtha at small, rural, private Bennington, but it wasn't the way they spelled it at small, rural, private Bryn Mawr. Have I caught TIME napphing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Outside the great U.S. Steel Corp. plant in Gary, Ind., the steelworkers union set up three tents so that strikers could sit down and watch TV when they got bored with marching in the picket line. "We may have to be here a spell," drawled one striker. "Might as well relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Two-Way Street? | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...found that nothing-or almost nothing-had changed since he first fell under Castro's spell. Said he: "The only difference I saw was that he's putting on weight around the middle." With other newsmen-including the Times's fulltime Cuba correspondent, Ruby Hart Phillips -reporting growing discontent with the Castro regime, growing concern about Communist influence, Matthews presented a far brighter picture. Items from Matthews' Page One story last week:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Times & Cuba | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...sick.") When Shirley made Around the World, she got to Japan herself; when she took time out to have a baby, she named her Stephanie Sachiko, to demonstrate that she shared Steve's love for the Orient. The baby slowed her down not a bit. She made Hot Spell, a good picture but not much of a box-office splash, showed up on the Sheepman set "somewhat trepidatious" for her first western. She was togged in immaculate jeans, spotless cowgirl hat, shiny boots. "I was the only gal in the picture," she says. "Director George Marshall threw a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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