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...Jazz still "occupies a place entirely apart," but is given a complete chronicling from its African "origins through bop. In Grove IV, blues were kissed off with a See FOX TROT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Grove | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...Municipal Auditorium last week, the month's downbeat for uplift filled all 5,200 seats (at $1.25 to $1.60, children half price), and later the total was swelled by 1,300 standees. Things got under way when beefy Wally Fowler, a bushy-browed master of ceremonies from Possum Trot, Ga., asked everybody to "turn left, then turn right and shake hands; I want you to be good neighbors." Then he led the crowd in Love Lifted Me and Amazing Grace. After a short talk about the evils of materialism and intellectual confusion, he led another hymn, shouting between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prayers & Popcorn | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rhumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...what was formerly known as a "fly cop" [a sharp cop], and "that's a fact, ma'am" ... As for the officers who write asking Webb if he is a genuine member of the police department-they must be constables from Nellie's Apron or Possum Trot. The outstanding characteristic that he portrays is police mediocrity. One day he is looking for a little boy pulling a red wagon and next he is working on an important case ... He doesn't personify the L.A.P.D.'s homicide detective, Le Roy Sanderson, who could, in court, recite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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