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Word: three (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another glowing Hammer review appeared in the New York World-Telegram & Sun: "His recent death was a tragic loss . . . A great album." Then San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Ralph J. Gleason played the record, found that Buck had an advantage over other pianists -he was apparently born with three hands. Last week the perpetrator of the hoax confessed that he and Hammer were one. His name: Steve Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Secret Life of B. Hammer | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...balloonists were better able to carry it out under the rigors of high-altitude flight. Chief instrument was a 16-in. telescope mounted on top of the gondola and manipulated by remote control by the scientists inside. But they ran into immediate trouble. Take-off had been delayed for three hours by a minor fire in the gondola, and by the time the balloon reached 80,000 ft., Venus was too low to catch in the telescope. They were forced to wait all through the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shivering Look at Venus | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Know and Johnny Mathis' Misty, plus the effusions of such reformed rockers as Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Brook Benton. Back into pop records went the sound of shimmering strings, down went the beat. Of the top ten pop hits last week, only three were out-and-out rock 'n' roll. In Manhattan, Sam Goody's famed record shops reported a 40% drop in rock 'n' roll sales compared to a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK 'N1 ROLL: Decline & Fall? | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Gallup poll asked that question across the U.S., published the result this week. Two out of three people, reported Gallup, believe that the ad pitches they hear on TV make phony claims. The poll also showed that the more education a viewer has, the less likely he is to believe what the advertiser tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Unbeguiled Public | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...died of lung cancer and 339 from other causes, but the pathologists did not know this until after they had finished their findings. Each "tree" was cut into 208 portions and embedded in paraffin. Fifty-five of these portions, chosen for microscopic study, were then sliced three microns thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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