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Originally just a child's noisemaker, the pennywhistle is a 14-in. bit of metal tubing, drilled with six holes and flattened at one end for a mouthpiece. Though its natural range is one shrill octave, the seasoned player can squeeze out almost another octave. Like the New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pennywhistlers | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

The emphasis on speed and convenience has attracted millions of new customers. The oldtime mudpacks have been replaced by Pond's 37-second face cream; Mrs. Potter's walnut-juice stain, a turn-of-the-century hair dye, has given way to Roux's five-minute hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Pink Jungle | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

The high school itself includes the four pre-college classes with an enrollment of about 1300. Its system of grouping classes represents a departure from usual junior and senior high divisions. Until last September, the school also handled the seventh and eighth grades, but enrollment reached over 1700 in a...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Suburbia's Scarsdale High School Offers Top Academic Challenge | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

But a much bigger reason for the new interest was continued gossip that the U.S. will soon raise the price of gold from $35 an ounce, where it has stayed since 1934, to $40. Such an action, went the talk, would not only ease the profit squeeze on many of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD ECONOMY: Hunt for Gold | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

THE worldwide fall in commodity prices has presented the U.S. and the West with a problem of alarming proportions. What should, or must, be done for those underdeveloped nations whose economies depend largely on sales of raw materials? The U.S. commodity index shows a 10% drop in prices in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: -WORLD COMMODITY CRISIS-: It Cannot Be Solved by Trade Barriers | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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