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...Webster: "Means sufficient for the necessaries of life; sufficiency without excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 8, 1958 | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Bill Harris and Friends (Ben Webster, tenor sax; Jimmy Rowles, piano; Red Mitchell, bass; Stan Levey, drums; Fantasy). Trombonist Harris, who sometimes sounds as if he were blowing through several folds of velvet, is the weakest operative on an album chiefly distinguished by the pensive unfolding of some fine solos by Saxman Webster. In Where Are You?, I Surrender, Dear and In a Mello-tone, Webster articulates his longings with spacious ease and a tone as husky with melancholy as a distant-sounding foghorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...fast-moving and imaginative productions of Margaret Webster proved a stimulus and an eye-opener. And now our Stratford has a handsome, air-conditioned theatre, which contains Rouben Ter-Arutunian's magnificent basic stage and a surrounding physical plant that can accommodate the demands of all Shakespeare's plays with amazing speed and versatility...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Stratford, Conn. and the Future of American Shakespeare | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...Neither Webster nor Wodehouse defines "faithful brolly" with which Guinness is braced. Anything like a spot of the tiddly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...accompaniment of some thunderous cliches: "You remind me of someone I knew long, long ago"; "Love is just the most important thing that can happen to a person"; "Beneath that smiling mask stands the soul of a beast." For this pastiche Composer Moore (The Devil and Daniel Webster, Giants in the Earth) wrote a score that is alternately jazzy and sugary, but that in itself every so often sounds embarrassingly "sincere." While the nurse administers the ether, she bends over her patient-lover and croons a melting lullaby ("Sleep, my love") that leaves the audience wondering whether composer and librettist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Of Ghosts & Soap | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

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