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Chimes for Seniors. At times Ella Fondren takes her beneficiaries completely by surprise. After a tour of one of her hospitals, she suddenly decided that it needed a radioisotope laboratory, promptly put up $52,000 to install it. Hearing that an S.M.U. graduating class wanted to give the university a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Quiet One | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

In spectacular proof that them as has gits, full-busted Cinemactress Jayne (The Girl Can't Help It) Mansfield, 24, added to her natural endowments estates totaling some $90,000, the larger part of it a bequest from her late grandpa, who also left $1,000 to maintain the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Director Albert Marre has unfortunately decided virtually to ignore Robert O'Hearn's monumental set in Sanders, but his work on Joan seems commendable in every other way. He has quite wisely let the play run close to its original length of three and a half hours, and his idea...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Saint Joan | 8/16/1956 | See Source »

Zvons, however, are not without use in the western world, Edmund M. Parson '58, manager of the new society, insists. When Mercury Recordings produced the 1812 Overture recently, the company employed Yale's Harkness Tower chimes to simulate Russian bells. The Lowell bell-ringers are writing a letter in protest...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: The Russian Bells: Culture, Cacophony | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

Then there are Victor's Singing Dogs yelping out the same tune, one canine voice to a note (done by splicing tapes) to achieve a spirited effect, while Perry Como (in a reissue) transforms God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen into a queasy dirge. The curtain on Victor's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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