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...soloists sang over-sometimes under-a heavy orchestral ground swell and the crash of choral surf. The music was sometimes tuneful, sometimes noisy; there were promising moments of dreamlike vagueness that all too often led to the commonplace. It was soon clear that Christopher Columbus needed operatic action to hold an audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Columbus Sails Again | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Hawkins started early in his home town on New South Wales, where everybody swims at the age of four of five. His home is just a quarter mile from what Australians considers the world's best surf beach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '56 Swimmer Tells About Olympics | 11/12/1952 | See Source »

...worth $36 million now, have long since expanded into other fields. They own a chain of 43 stores, patterned after Woolworth's, a big mail-order house and sit as directors on at least 22 companies. A few years ago, John Moores bought Bermuda's Elbow Beach Surf Club for a reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: How to Have a Flutter | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...quoting, from the Labor Cabinet paper. Hapless Herbert Morrison yelped in pain, "I think it is unusual, doubtful in taste and constitutional propriety for the Prime Minis. ter to delve into the papers of his predecessors." But the House Speaker waved him down. Nye Bevan pounded in like the surf. Churchill's report, he cried, "may be a lying summary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tory Triumph | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...startling contrast to the dog-eared picture of Hawaii which most mainlanders (including Senators) carry around in their minds. According to the cliché, Hawaii is the home of hula dancers, ukulele players and dark-skinned surf riders, the stage for potential treason from the inscrutable Oriental-American, the impregnable bastion of Pearl Harbor, and the domain of those ancient monopolists, the Big Five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: The Brown & White Mosaic | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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