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...Thanks to new splash gutters and overflow pipes, which carry off pool-edge turbulence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Splashy Show | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...Bernarr ("Body Love") MacFadden, steadily ripening with age, asked Utah's Governor J. Bracken Lee if he might celebrate his 86th birthday next August by parachuting into Great Salt Lake. The Utah Aeronautics Commission, to which Lee referred the request, turned thumbs down on MacFadden because he might splash too hard on the "heavy" salt water and thus harm the commission's policy of "aerial safety." Taking the news standing up, MacFadden rumbled: "If I really want to make the jump, I'll go out and make it. How can they stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...Senator: Samuel W. (for William) Yorty, 45, two-term Congressman from Los Angeles who made a brief splash in Washington last year by beating his party's leadership to the punch in denouncing Defense Secretary Wilson's Air Force cutback (TIME, June 1). When, at 27, Sam Yorty was elected to the state assembly, his reputation as a radical resulted in a charge before the Dies Committee that he was a Communist. In 1940 he veered so far to the right that he founded the assembly's Communist-hunting committee which rawhided Democratic Governor Culbert L. Olson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Faith That Shifts | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...would be unfortunate to saddle this delightful production with a top-heavy moral. As in The Madwoman of Chaillot and The Trojan War will Not Take place, Giraudouz rejects a serious plane for the freedom of fantasy. Ondine is a splash of brilliant costumes (Richard Whorf) and imaginative sets (Peter Larkin). The appearance of such characters as three Loreli-type sprites and a walking replica of Venus de Milo break into the narrative to keep the lively pace...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Ondine | 2/4/1954 | See Source »

...life, flunked out as a junior college music major. He taught himself the trumpet in junior high school when he wanted to join the band, later played in Army bands in Berlin and San Francisco. He played with a few California combos before he made his big splash with Gerry Mulligan's quartet in 1952 (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Listen to Those Zsounds | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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