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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAROL STEVENS is a deep-purple (D below middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Canaries | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Bumped Off. The reasons were as complex-and sometimes as absurd-as the Indians themselves. Some Indians still seethe with resentment. Grumbled Arizona Apache Jesse Stevens about Hollywood's cowboy-and-Indian movies: "One white guy always managed to kill off a bunch of Indians. They should try hiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Ruffled Feathers | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Afterwards, rooters swarmed over Choreographer Robbins, who could only mutter "Thanks, thanks" as he wandered in a happy daze backstage. The chic mob then swept on to Sardi's, finally swarmed to a full-blast party given by balding, burly Producer Roger Stevens at Park Avenue's Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

One day last week Mrs. Stevens and her seniors took over an abandoned farmhouse two miles outside town, scattered papier-mâché skulls, steer bones, toy rattlesnakes and other spooky bits and pieces in strategic places. Just before the party Principal Sallee daubed himself with black greasepaint, spattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNITIES: Something for the Kids | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

One by one, the seniors led the freshmen through the dark house, amid weird groans and rattling chains. When they came to the kitchen they briefly flashed a light on the hideous but familiar form that hung limply and moaned softly. All the freshmen agreed that the hanging man was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNITIES: Something for the Kids | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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