Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without preamble, the three-piece band cuts loose. In the spotlight, the lanky singer flails furious rhythms on his guitar, every now and then breaking a string. In a pivoting stance, his hips swing sensuously from side to side and his entire body takes on a frantic quiver, as if he had swallowed a jackhammer. Full-cut hair tousles over his forehead, and sideburns frame his petulant, full-lipped face. His style is partly hillbilly, partly socking rock 'n' roll. His loud baritone goes raw and whining in the high notes, but down low it is rich...
...tart-tongued Neurologist Percival Bailey, a top brain surgeon, dissect the entire psychiatric revolution of the 20th century's first half. Revolutions, Bailey said, "bring change but not necessarily progress." Echoed Cincinnati's Dr. Howard Fabing: "The second half of our century finds us in a swing back to a more orthodox type of medical investigation...
...suitable, many buyers are going back to traditional designs. The hottest sellers in Dallas this year are Georgian. Colonial and even houses with French Provincial trims, but all are modified to give the kind of light, cool living that buyers demand in the Texas climate. In Califor nia, the swing to traditional houses has brought back "Cinderella" and "Storybook" houses with leaded-glass windows and dormers...
...swing of comment from one extreme to the other is not at all surprising. Few people in Britain would like to be positive in either way about the results of the conference, for the simple reason that all which emerged has to be tested in the future. The two governments were able to appraise each other better: that is certain, and it is a great gain. Yet the conference did not end in hard decisions. It simply set out intentions. These cannot be despised or belittled, but the fulfillment of them in practice has still to be seen...
...bonds were sold by Chicago Financier Harold L. Stuart, 74, who got them for $1,402,200 in 1952 when he floated $6,000,000 in loans to swing the deal that kept the paper out of the Times-Star's hands. It was Stuart's 1952 deal that enabled Enquirer employees to win their campaign to take control of the paper themselves. It was Stuart's impatience with the Enquirer's internal management squabbles (TIME, Dec. 5 et seq.) that prompted him to sell out last week...