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It was different, very different. Except for the music, there wasn't a sound in the place. People sat at their tables, hands folded, staring hard at the stand. There, in the middle of the raised platform stood Lee Konitz--himself staring at a small saxophone clutched in his rapidly...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Real Cerebral | 3/4/1952 | See Source »

Ashes to Ashes. On wound the procession, the foreign dignitaries in the rear making a poor show beside the disciplined march of the military. Drab in topcoat and tophat they walked, wearing the abstracted look which the important learn to adopt under the pressure of staring eyes-neither marching nor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Great Queue | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

The baby Republic of Indonesia, just 26 months old, is trying to walk a neutral course down the shaky sidewalk of Southeast Asia. In its uncertainty, it makes a policy of staring haughtily at friendly nods of recognition. Last week a U.S. offer of a mere $8,000,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Born Yesterday | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

It is very clear that Universal Studios are taking advantage of an intrinsically sad situation to load on every tear-provoking scene in their files. One good example is the shot of a blind soldier hearing a letter from his son; the boy was born while the soldier was at...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/24/1952 | See Source »

In Clara, Southern Novelist Lonnie Coleman has handled a potentially messy theme with uncommon dignity. His story, in other hands, might have become a staring-eyed study of miscegenation. Author Coleman uses it to show that the color line in the South can sometimes follow a route as uncertain as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Without Gothic | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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