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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote music for revues at the Teatro Lirico, and in 1932 began croaking his own songs in an immensely popular radio program. Lara became a kind of musical version of Rudolph Valentino. Touring neighboring republics, he was mobbed by women in the streets. After quarreling with his actress-wife, Carmen Zozoya, Lara met Movie Star María Felix just before a party in honor of her first big picture. "Please come, Señor Lara," cooed María. "But I warn you that we have no piano. Just a guitar." Next day he sent her a snow-white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lovers' Lamenter | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...38th International Motor Show in London's cavernous Earls Court, British automen put in their biggest bid for the booming '"baby" market. On display, along with such sporty models as the low-slung Singer SMX, went the new Standard Eight ($956) and a larger, more powerful version of the Ford Anglia ($1,008). Feature of the show: the two cheapest production cars in the world. One was the Austin A30, a two-door, four-cylinder, 30-h.p, model costing $938. The other was the Ford Popular, a four-seater austerity model of the Anglia, which will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Babies for Britain | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...production of The Male Animal, it is the least animalistic of the cast's nine males who gives this version its spirit and drive. Actors in the play should have the teamwork of the football squad at mythical Midwestern U. And if this time there are a few too many fumbles, the HDC evens the score by coming up with a triple threat in the lead role...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: The Male Animal | 10/29/1953 | See Source »

Before the '57 team took the field, Jordan put his first line and second backfield through a defensive scrimmage against the junior varsity version of the Davidson offense. Simultaneously the first backfield and second line ran offensive plays in a dummy scrimmage with second string jayvees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Culver Leads Ground Attack in Scrimmage | 10/28/1953 | See Source »

...appeal of the 1885 version of the soap opera must have been strong, for either grandmother or one of her brood carefully preserved A Friendly Turn in the commodious family Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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