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...going to a department store. I haven't dared go near one in years." But the anonymity is not likely to last. After a difficult day, Gleason issued from his penthouse at the George V looking, in spotless maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music Hall, where his jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk routine. Later, he joked with French Clown Jacques Tati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Magnificent Muttonhead | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...answers in a three-hour verbal marathon. Belying the stories of his senility, Kenyatta looked at least ten years younger than his admitted 71 years. He wore a fly whisk chained to his wrist with a band of silver, sported a gay red tie and a brand-new leather jacket. As he spoke, the old, grey-flecked spade beard bobbed emphatically: "I shall always be an African nationalist to the end . . . but I have never been a violent man ... I condemned and denounced (Mau Mau) oathing at many public meetings. I strongly disapprove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: A Word from Jomo | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...Rome's Via Veneto, the night was gay with lights and pink azaleas in curbside tubs. At a sidewalk cafe, Ivan Kro-scenko, 31. a man in a black leather jacket, sipped espresso and cased the pedestrian traffic with a predatory eye. A bearded giant strode past: Cinemactor Steve ("Hercules") Reeves. "Mr. Universe," sneered Kroscenko softly. "So who cares?" He was after bigger game. "Linda Christian. Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg. Jayne Mansfield." he rolled the names lovingly across his tongue. "They are important people. They make trouble." Kroscenko rose, slung the strap of his Rolleicord camera over a shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paparazzi on the Prowl | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...such I think the best of his works succeed. His compositions remind us that music is, after all, merely sound organized by men in some purposeful fashion, and that its limits are set by its purpose. His belief that music is experience, not communication, helps to destroy the straight-jacket that social forms and traditional compositions have put on our listening habits...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Avant-garde Music | 4/11/1961 | See Source »

...League life. it is also one of the Birmingham is on the about in the entire reasonably literate could have put together of course residential statements of library sizes, and lists of alumni simply by reading office press releases, and never leaving his armchair. to the dust jacket and Birmingham was show potential applicants parents how the Ivy are similar and how they was also attempting to the individual personality institutions. But, according accounts, the only significant between any two Ivy the size of their libaries. the Ivy League sound rather drab institutions, only by the their sameness and their...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: The Ivy League: Unvarying Mediocrity? | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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