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...been waiting for TIME to comment on the fact that we are about to have our first bald-headed President of the U.S. Is this just in keeping with the tempo of our times-that tension causes baldness? Both candidates have had their share of "headaches" and tension. Or do we have here two of the brainier men of our times proving the old wheeze that "brains and long locks can't share the same scalp...
...success of a "straight" version of Kiss of Fire. For one thing, the arrangement has life, and she takes some of the credit: the music was a familiar old tango, El Choclo; she decided the brooding rhythm made it "sound like a dirge," souped it up with a beguine tempo. But she also credits the lyrics. They are not too cheerful ("You record a happy song today, and you lay a bomb"*), in fact they are downright masochistic: Though it burns me and it turns me into ashes, / My whole world crashes without your kiss of fire...
...winner was "The Three Figures," ground by Henk Lurks, son of the 1947 winner. Judges said his tempo was "prima," that he had "the arm of a metronome and the soul of an artist." Most terrible of the experts' judgments on some of the losers: "Too genteel...
...film series. What with learning the 14 to 20 songs she sings on her twice-a-week CBS radio show (Club 88), it makes a pretty tight schedule. But Peggy says she's "just gardening" on the West Coast. She wants to go to New York, where "the tempo of show business is really...
Pirandello may never quite reach his father's stature in his chosen field, but no one can call him a slouch. His paintings now sell for from $300 to $600 apiece, and Rome's art critics treat him with respect. Wrote // Tempo's Virgilio Guzzu "He has a personal impact of his own . . . You may accept or refuse the painter Pirandello . . . but you cannot . . . ignore...