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Crazy He Calls Me (Dakota Staton; Capitol LP). Singer Staton is an ample woman with a more than ample voice and a gaudy spectrum of moods. She can be broadly comic in How High the Moon, exuberant in No Moon at All, anguished in Morning, Noon or Night. In Can't Live Without Him Any More she hits the listener with a sound like an unmuted brass section. What makes her album a delight, though, is its sheer exuberance, suggesting that nobody is getting more kicks than Dakota herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Attacking Stevenson directly, McCarthy cited Rear Admiral Adolphus Staton (USN ret.) concerning a conference the admiral had with Stevenson during World War II at a time when the Democratic candidate "had been assigned the task of enforcing the . . . law which ordered the removal of Communists from the radio aboard our ships." Staton's statement as quoted by McCarthy: "Stevenson said that he could not see that we had anything at all against them and stated that we should not be hard on the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Standard Effort | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...following men were selected to occupy billets during the Semester leave: Michael J. Kingsley--New York Navy Purchasing Office; Lambert Kaspers--Thompsonville, Staton Island, New York; John A. O'Hara and Arthur A. Aschauer--Navy Aviation Supply Office and Depot, Philadelphia; Ben B. Graves--Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Washington; Mortimer J. Roth--Commander, Air Force, Atlantic Fleet; and John E. Keery--Boston Navy -Yard...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 9/3/1943 | See Source »

Married. Cinemactress Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, 21, "still"-starred cinemactress (her first film, The Outlaw, is yet to be generally released); and her old steady, Robert Staton Waterfield, 22, U.C.L.A. Rose Bowl quarterback; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...weather report broke in at this point. An exasperated listener, Lookout Staton Brooks at Mount Wrightson, got the weatherman to hush so the network could hear "a couple of American planes in the Pacific." They heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Listen to Mah Motor... | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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