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...opera unfolded, detailing the eating, loving, fighting and drinking habits of the inhabitants of Mahagonny during seven workless days of each week, the audience repeatedly broke in with applause-most notably at the end of Alabama-Song, a savage but haunting number in which Lotte Lenya made her debut as a singer more than three decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mythical Mahagonny | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...being able at last to leave his bird shooting at Sandringham and rejoin his wife at this exciting moment of her life." Last January he announced acidly that "Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon leave for a holiday in the West Indies to recover from the strain of their almost workless year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Royalty's Recourse | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...restlessness worsening along with his press notices (latest from London's Sunday Express: "Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon leave for a holiday in the West Indies to recover from the strain of their almost workless year"), ex-Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones signed on with London's Sunday Times as "artistic adviser" and occasional cameraman-at an undisclosed salary. Insisted his new editor: "It is a real job of work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 12, 1962 | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

literature is not so non-beat as you seem to think or the test is time & i dont mean your publication-which is only another type of literature, feel free to print howl, moan or anything else. listen beat does not always mean unwashed or workless-i have 2 exhibitions here within the next fortnight-one at "city lights." gregory corso [is] first angel poet of america. stop laughing at artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Empty Bottles. In Havana, Castro's antivice campaign suspended the crooked government lottery (costing 4,000 ticket vendors their jobs). The government also closed a giant private numbers game, kept locks on the big gambling casinos, employing 10,000. Castro wiped out the Botellas,*the workless government jobs given minor flunkies by the Batista and previous regimes, whacking off 6,000 names at a saving of $15 million a year. The notoriously corrupt Havana newsmen, who for decades had been drawing up to $1,000,000 a month in government bribes, were rudely reduced to their salaries, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Purification | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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