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Roddy MacDowall, Eartha Kitt, Oscar Homolka and Boris Karloff in a dramatization of Joseph Conrad's eerie master piece, Heart of Darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...song, and the sinuous good looks that make audiences pay attention from ringside clear back to the chromium bar stools. In Manhattan and Detroit last week, Sallie, 24, and Abbey, 27, were peddling Topic A with a gusto that few singers have displayed since Dorothy Dandridge and Eartha Kitt started giving night classes in it for the tavern trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Topic A | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...they are treating my people down South, the Government can go to hell," trumpeted Jazzman Louis Armstrong, and announced that he was withdrawing from a U.S.-financed trip to the Soviet Union. Nightclub Songstress Eartha Kitt was of like mind. "The country is angry, and it will take a long time to settle down," she cried. "You can't have a strong country with a nitwit like that for President." And Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo. told friends: "If this had happened when I was in the White House, I would have had Faubus in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: With Deliberate Speed | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Charging that she hollered "This is a clip joint," soused patrons with champagne and walloped one of the owners below the belt when presented with a $137 nightclub bill, a Manhattan hotspot filed suit against sinuous Songbird Eartha Kitt. Revised check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...established institution. On opening night, there was a moist-eyed party in honor of Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's 57th birthday, which Louis ended on a sour note by blasting out The Star-Spangled Banner and stomping off stage when he found he could play only 13 numbers. Eartha Kitt undulated her way through a 15-minute dance history of jazz, to the music of Dizzy Gillespie's band. In spare moments the jazz pedants gathered in panels and discussed serious things, e.g., "Working Conditions of Jazz Musicians, Present and Possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trumpets Are for Extroverts | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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