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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 »

Born. To Teresa Brewer, 23, tiny, leather-lunged jukebox songstress (Music! Music! Music!; Till I Waltz Again with You), and Bill Monahan, 27, music publisher: a third daughter, third child; in The Bronx. Name: Megan Colleen. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...mumps. In the ring, however, there was no doubt that he was reluctant to fight. "There were long, painful intervals," wrote Parker, "in which the two warriors stood and regarded each other like querulous old hens. Then, without a 'shall we dawnce?' cue, they would embrace and waltz a measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Philadelphia Fiasco | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Mama Doll Song (Patti Page; Mercury). Mother instinct takes over, with bosomy Patti lovingly imitating the cry of a mechanical doll in waltz tempo, all undisturbed by Freudian implications. Bestseller-bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Massenet: Scènes Pittoresques (Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Jean Fournet; Epic). An ingratiating suite by one of the French nationalist revolution aries of the 1870s (others: Lalo, Saint-Saëns) that swings its waltz and polonaise movements as only Massenet could. Played as if it were made of sturdier stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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