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Cowell: Symphony No. 11 (Louisville Orchestra conducted by Robert Whitney; Columbia). One of the most prolific of U.S. composers in a fine, strong work that is worth every penny of Louisville's $1,000 commission (TIME, Jan. 24). Subtitled Seven Rituals of Music, it moves from a wispy, tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Comfortable & Colorful. In 1955, more than ever before, U.S. summer clothes are gay and casual. There are Orlon sweaters, dresses in Dacron, nylon and other wonder fabrics in every color. There are dresses of wispy silk and tough denims, terry-cloth shirts, and shorts in everything from calfskin to velvet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The American Look | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

No Room for Both. Ngo Dinh Diem seems at first glance an improbable man for a fight against Ho Chi Minh, the wispy, twisting onetime chef's assistant who is so resolutely Communist, yet so clever that much of Asia still toys with the notion that he is really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Beleaguered Man | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Like Old Bailey judges, Attlee and 13 members of Labor's shadow cabinet* took their places on the platform in Committee Room 14, overlooking the Thames. All but a handful of Labor's 294 M.P.s squeezed into the stifling room, and Nye Bevan, dressed in black, took a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trial of Aneurin Bevan | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

In the mid-1930s, many a U.S. housewife without so much as a Cadillac to call her own wrung her hands in anguish over the plight of a pathetic, ten-year-old waif named Gloria Vanderbilt. Fatherless at two, Gloria was heir to a trust fund totaling some $3,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Sic Transit Gloria | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

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