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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mob on the Stage. Flanked on either side by huge towers of brickwork that once formed the walls of the calidarium, Caracalla's is one of the world's biggest opera stages: more than a third of an acre. To keep it from looking empty, the Rome Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera at the Baths | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Armstrong first heard her in Harlem, he picked her up and kissed her.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Land of Oo-bla-dee | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Mary Lou was still playing the same kind of exciting piano in a jammed Greenwich Village basement bistro called the Village Vanguard-even though no bigwigs of jazz happened to be around to do any picking up and kissing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Land of Oo-bla-dee | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Puffing on his pipe, Tennistar Ted Schroeder turned a lazy eye on the grim and determined young men swatting tennis balls at each other on Forest Hills' geometrical array of grass courts. "Look at those guys," he said, nodding at his fellow competitors in the National Singles. "In another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relaxation at Forest Hills | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

With a cat-like grin and a big serve, Schroeder easily dusted off his first three Forest Hills opponents last week. He was clearly pleased at being seeded No. 1 in the tournament, over young (21) up & coming Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, the defending champion; there were moments when it seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relaxation at Forest Hills | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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