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...summer of '57 belonged to Jerry Lee Lewis and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." Sun had issued his rendition of the song (written by Dave Williams and Roy Hall, a.k.a Sonny David) in the spring, but it started soaring after Lewis's July 28th appearance on Steve Allen's Sunday night show. I remember watching that performance with the same startled excitement that seized me when I saw Elvis's debut on the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey "Stage Show" 18 months earlier. A sharp intake of breath, a gnarl of the stomach and an irresistibly bopping head could mean only...
...Richard Rodgers, the Broadway composer whose centenary was celebrated with the fireworks of theatrical huzzahs on June 28th, enjoyed long collaborations with the two most prominent lyricists of the American musical. He worked with his first partner, Lorenz Hart, from 1919 until Hart's death, at 48, in 1943. And he teamed with Oscar Hammerstein II from the epochal "Oklahoma!" in 1943 to Hammerstein's death...
...come to a verbal agreement with Alan Stone on the 28th, he will go to Larry Summers and say that this is a policy he can go through with,” Maher said. “[Summers] told me he will buy into this...
...captain John Cinelli, among the league’s top-ranked in the 3000 steeplechase, placed 13th in his division with a run of 9:16.94—two seconds off his season’s best from last week. That was good for 28th overall out of all college runners at Penn...
Grant had hoped that this weekend’s two events would provide another opportunity to improve on her previous week’s performance, but it was not to be. She was 28th in the nation on the latest performance list and will probably need a result in the 58-meter range to make the top 16 in the nation and earn a spot in the NCAA championships...