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Basic Bestsellers. The cash came early: Fats is only 29. Eleven years ago he was plunking out "back-beat," barrelhouse piano while he sold "snowballs" (shaved ice and flavoring) from a New Orleans streetside stand. By 1949, he played "rhythm and blues"-the record trade's postwar tag for Negro pop music with the beat, but not the brass, of Dixieland. His record, The Fat Man (Imperial), hit for an 800,000-copy sale. In 1955 rhythm and blues got transformed into rock 'n' roll and began to boom; so did Fats...
...Dallas dressing room last week, Fats speculated about his popularity and Presley's: "You got to hand it to the boy. He's it, right now." But when fans call Fats the undisputed rock 'n' roll king, he chortles: "Man, I carry that tag well-I mean undisputed...
...sleek motion pictures, American newspapers and magazines, soft drinks, dentistry"-already dominate Europe. He cites a ream of historical parallels that do not prove the theory but endlessly restate it. American readers are used by now to the pat European charge of ubiquitous vulgarity, and will bear the tag of "The New Rome" peaceably. But they will bridle at the suggestion that they are about to embrace a Caesar. Author de Riencourt traces what he takes to be an imperial growth of presidential power from the age of Jackson to Franklin Roosevelt, who, he says, was symbolically offered the kingly...
...Journalist Pierre Daninos and the Englishman is Major Thompson, the hero of The Notebooks of Major Thompson (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955), a collection of Daninos' sometimes hilarious feature stories that has sold more than half a million copies in Europe and the U.S. To turn this rag, tag and bobtail of epigram, anecdote, whimsy and general small beer into a movie was, according to Sturges, "like trying to make a film of the telephone directory." But, except for a few wrong numbers, Director Sturges has done the trick with a controlled crack. pettiness that will take many moviegoers back...
...Inertial Guidance system that guided the 1953 flight with nearly pinpoint accuracy weighed a hefty 2,700 Ibs., got the tag "navigation in a closet." To be effective in a missile where each pound of excessive weight exacts a heavy toll in lost speed and distance, the mass of wires, tubes and gyros would have to be slimmed down from closet to pocket size. Advances in accuracy and miniaturization since the first flight are classified, but the M.I.T. scientists, who have been working on Inertial Guidance since 1939, serve as consultants to the Air Force and Navy on such systems...