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...Weeks that John Berendt's hardcover Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been on the New York Times' nonfiction best-seller list, tying the longest-lasting title in history, the 1950s book The Power of Positive Thinking...
Elvis' fortitude is bred in the bones. His mother was the last of eight children in a Hungarian family, his father the first of nine in a Yugoslav household. They fled communist tanks in the 1950s, landed in Canada, met each other in Toronto and married. Upon the birth of her third child, Irene Stojko happened to be gonzo over Elvis Presley. She had already demonstrated a flair for tribute--daughter Elizabeth salutes the British Queen, and as for son Attila, well...and so she named the new kid for the King...
DIED. SHINICHI SUZUKI, 99, Japan's Pied Piper, whose methods of instruction have taught millions of toddlers worldwide a new mother tongue, classical music; in Tokyo. Putting his techniques into widespread practice in the 1950s, Suzuki coached his tiny pupils to memorize Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and, later, Mozart's concertos--without their necessarily being able to read a note...
...Capeman, PAUL SIMON's new musical about a New York City gang killing in the 1950s, had a long, troubled road to Broadway, and its troubles didn't end on opening night. Some last-minute doctoring helped a bit (especially in the doo-wop-flavored first act), but the show never comes to life onstage, and it was drubbed by critics. Yet its backers are vowing to keep the show running at least until the Tony nominations in May. "We're obviously disappointed," said DAN KLORES, one of the producers. "But we're going to fight." A determined group...
...staphylococcus aureus becomes resistant to erythromycin, a protein inhibitor, after only seven to ten days. Resistance to penicillin developed a few years after its commercial production in 1941, and resistance to four or more antibiotics became the norm for 40 percent of the strains by the end of the 1950s...