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Word: yellow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition-filigreed world of highbrow music, the Texas longhair is a maverick who conforms to nobody's image of a virtuoso. His family has been American on both sides for at least four generations. His pale baby face, with its cornflower-blue eyes beneath a tangle of yellow hair, might suggest a choir boy-which he has been. He is exuberantly gregarious, unsophisticated and, on the surface at least, totally untempera-mental. Former Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson recalls that once, in an orchestral tutti during the rehearsal of a concerto, Van rose from the keyboard and walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The All-American Virtuoso | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...want a kewpie doll for my motorcycle," said a leather-jacket knight of the road, with a yellow grin...

Author: By George Apley, | Title: Ulysses | 5/6/1958 | See Source »

...Cheap. Latin American airlines make rate-cutting work by an assortment of economies. Many fly aerial jitneys, such as war-surplus C-46s converted from U.S. Air Force freighters into lumbering passenger planes. Chile's thriving Cinta line paints its four-engined airliners Panagra yellow and green, and calls one flight El Latinamericano in cousinly association to Panagra's crack El Inter Americano -but not even dubbing the plane "Super DC-4B" makes it anything but an un-pressurized, 230-m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Aerial Battle | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Next year Bronx High will leave its dirty yellow brick pile (Former Principal Meister will move in with his newly founded Bronx Community College) and take over a lavish, $8,000,000 brain trainery, equipped with special labs for independent student research. Last week the joyous grind for next year's scholarships continued; Math Department Chairman Irving Dodes dismissed a class studying symbolic logic, said wearily and wonderingly: "I can't sit down without kids coming in, pestering me for advanced math books or trying to prove the impossible. It's a continual effort to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Training for Brains | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Everyone could see there was something wrong with the normally spry old man who disembarked at Naples last week. The American Export Liner Independence was flying the white and yellow flag of the Vatican state, and 20-odd archbishops, monsignors, priests and politicos thronged to welcome the first American in history to be appointed to the potent Curia, headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. But throughout the hubbub of greeting, Samuel Alphonso Cardinal Stritch, 70-year-old Archbishop of Chicago, seldom spoke and did not once offer his ring to be kissed. He was wearing it, some noticed with surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Cardinal's Ordeal | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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