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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muted brasses which sounded as smooth as cream and went down with the public just as easily. The album is still Columbia's popular bestseller outside the jazz field. (It is behind Dave Brubeck but ahead of the albums of such old standbys as Frank Sinatra, Paul Weston and Les Elgart.) Legrand followed it up with a series of mood collections on European capitals (Holiday in Rome, Castles in Spain, Vienna Holiday) which, with his first album, have sold upwards of 400,000 albums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Top Seller | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...watch us roll. There's the clover-leaf. Now on Weston Road barrelling down to Wellesley. Two miles to go. Imagine those waiting arms of the Wellesley Outing Club. Free food...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: A Veteran's Guide to the Big Race | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

...hats, but for Atget's treatment of glass and reflection, which is strikingly modern, indeed almost surrealistic. His photographs were in fact first published in a Surrealistic magazine in 1926. The study of a tree stump will also strike many as similar to the contemporary Edward Weston's Point Lobos series. Both in the problems he proposed and in his direct approach to them, Atget was at once a pioneer and a master. This is a rare opportunity to examine the work of the imagier, who "could find the human quality" even "where no human beings appear...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: L'Imagier | 2/23/1956 | See Source »

Because he has a $1 billion bakery empire that stretches from Britain to Australia, Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston is known as the "Barnum of Bread" (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week the Barnum of Bread rose some more. In a $32 million stock deal, Weston got control of Chicago's National Tea Co., fifth biggest U.S. market chain, with 1954 sales of $520 million. He did so by purchasing 544,000 shares (27%) of National Tea stock from Director John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Barnum in the Supermarket | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Rasmussen. For his money, Weston will become the third biggest grocer on the North American continent, with $1.3 billion annual sales and 1,025 stores (712 National Tea stores, 313 in Weston's Loblaw chain) in 14 U.S. states and Canada. Only A.& P. and Safeway Stores are bigger. For Capitalist Cuneo, who bought 348,000 shares ten years ago at about $5 a share, the deal was a bonanza. By selling all but 5,000 shares at a reported price of $60 a share, Cuneo made a profit estimated at nearly $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Barnum in the Supermarket | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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