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...Torch Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...Pete's sake, why does everybody have to refer to fortyish Torch Singer Roberta Sherwood as "middle-aged"? Speaking for myself and all us girls in this interesting age bracket, my spread has not changed status one bit in the last 20 years; furthermore, I am not now and never will be middleaged. CONSTANCE SANDERSON Brockton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...awful lot of mail from women like me," says Torch Singer Roberta Sherwood. "That is, from the women with a middle-aged spread. A lot of them had ambitions that were never realized, and I guess I look as if I am realizin' them." Thus, after bowing demurely to an ovation at Manhattan's Copacabana, Singer Sherwood explained the infectious appeal that in the last year has turned her, at 43, into the nation's biggest new nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Middle-Aged Siren | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Yardling dance tickets printed at $2.00 for $1.00--a recent change. It is rumored that this is a violation of statute, or at least foul play. I say let's clean up this mess, this corruption. And I say let's get a proven man to carry the torch, a stalwart champion of the rights of the Harvard Man--Denis Barber ('60). (Name Withheld...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRUSADE | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

...equipped, it so far has been ineffectual against the kind of "internal conflict" that has plagued the island for nearly three months. Bomb-bursts terrorize Havana almost nightly; the explosions often knock down power poles and black out parts of the city. Sugar cane fields are put to the torch with regularity. And in southeastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra mountains, a band of wily, determined rebels is getting larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Running-Sore Revolt | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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