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Way of Life. Last week, between showings of Fanny, customers got 37 minutes of Americana that included the choir from Centenary College in Shreveport, La., singing Beautiful Dreamer before a backdrop of amiably winking stars. French tumblers sang while they somersaulted, and a ballet was performed before a village bandstand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectacles: Grand Canyon East | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

Gin & Mimbo. Durrell seems to lend his animals the qualities of far-out British eccentrics. There was the egg-eating snake which absorbed the yolk and white, regurgitated the crushed shell. There was Bug-Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fon's Fauna | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

"Bee-eep, bee-eep, bee-eep," piped the loudspeakers of Rio's Little Maracana sport stadium one evening last week. From overhead, a glittering crystal Sputnik twirled down, antennas spinning, lights blinking. Spotlights glared as it landed, picked out a sequin-spangled man and woman dangling from it. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Reddest Show on Earth | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

The Christmastide had long been a happy time in the city room. In trod messengers bearing gifts from sources to newsmen-ashtrays, tumblers, cheeses, fruit baskets, electric roasters, turkeys, hams, and good liquor. If he occupied the right spot-say, a business, entertainment or sports desk-the happy recipient might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Santa & the City Room | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

A striking feature at St. Lawrence, which is now 100% open, and in varying degrees at all New York's other state hospitals (average: 66% open), is the transformation of the wards. Gone are the dreary wooden benches, where patients dressed in Mother Hubbards (when they were not undressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Open Door in Psychiatry | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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