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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs Henry Kearns, a former California automobile dealer, gave a blunt answer to the question. Such fears, he told the Toronto Board of Trade, came as a "shock and a surprise" to Americans, who have been "perhaps somewhat naively proud" of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Vassal or Beneficiary? | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

To no one's surprise, the festival's standout was the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Blending classical and jazz traditions with a masterful touch, Milhaud-trained Pianist Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) and his mates (Eugene Wright on bass, Joe Morello on drums, Paul Desmond on alto sax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: An Island of Jazz | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Los Angeles televiewers have learned to expect the unexpected from station KCOP-TV, which last year won national attention for its freewheeling program of comment by Pianist Oscar Levant (TIME, May 5, 1958). This week the station popped another big-name surprise on viewers. KCOP-TV's newest star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Goodie's Goodies | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

To U.S. audiences who associate De Sica with some of Italy's greatest postwar protest films (The Bicycle Thief, Shoeshine, Umberto D. and The Roof), his participation in this featherweight import may come as something of a surprise. But since the films that earned him a place in cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Break Out to Bop. Russia has always been a musical nation, so it came as no surprise that the Russians played well. The stunner was how closely the Russians caught the sense of the music, particularly the sad throb of the blues. There were times, says Ruff, "when the renditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Those Cool Reds | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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