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...jazz festivals started erupting across the land. As usual, the major hostilities started at Newport. Now in its sixth year and still the most prestigious of the lot, the Newport festival regularly attracts the royalty of the summer circuit -Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, the Modern Jazz Quartet, et al.-at fees ranging up to $4,000 a package. The festival is extravagantly promoted, strenuously recorded and religiously re ported by some 500 members of "the working press" (including this year a Massachusetts optometrist representing the British Jazz Journal...
...tasks which Messrs. Titcomb et al. have seen fit to assign me is the reviewing of second rate dramatic productions. I found that Fair Game, which opened and closed at the Boston Summer Playhouse last week, fell easily in this category...
...nation's farms would outproduce by 40% even last year's staggering claim of 375 million tons of grain, which was already said to be nearly double the output of 1957. Western specialists were inclined to view this as exaggeration piled upon exaggeration (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.), but still they were impressed...
...hold-down on spending for B-52 bombers, Strategic Air Command fuel, basic research. On orders from President Eisenhower, McElroy worked out and steered through Congress a reorganization plan that, on paper at least, took a long stride toward unified control of the Defense Department (TIME, April 14, 1958 et...
...emergence of rumpled, chubby Silvio Milazzo, 56, as the voice of his island's traditional separatism had typically Sicilian origins. A Christian Democrat since early youth, Landowner Milazzo was a reliable party wheel horse up to the time ambitious former Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani (TIME, May 26, 1958 et seq.) began to slip his bright young men from Rome into Sicily's Christian Democratic organization. Last October, outraged by this infringement on Sicilian autonomy (and threat to Sicilian patronage), Milazzo bolted the party. He managed to get control of the regional assembly by putting together a crazy-quilt...