Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly 20 years ago, Mildred Bailey lowered her mountainous bulk into her niece's tot-sized red rocking chair to pass the time of day with friend Hoagy Carmichael. When she tried to get up, the chair got up with her. Said Mildred with a laugh: "This ol' rockin' chair's got me, I guess." A month later, Composer Carmichael had finished the song that made Mildred famous...
...fans wait for what they had all come to hear. Not a pound under weight (at 190) in a shroudlike black gown, her swarthy features and shoe-button eyes gleaming in the spotlight, she teased them first with a couple of new ones - but in the familiar, sweetly sighing Bailey style. ("I couldn't sing big if I wanted to.") When they kept roaring for it, she finally gave them Rockin' Chair with a real tear glistening...
Other winners: Daniel S. Cheever '39 2G, the Chase Prize for his dissertation. "The Security Council"; Alan B. Overstreet 5G, the Summer Prize for a dissertation entitled "Sovereignty in the Constitutions of Some International Organization"; Stephen K. Bailey (Ph.D. '48), the Toppan Prize for his paper "The Politics of Full Employment...
Harry Truman once complained that it is easier to move Barnum & Bailey's circus across the country than it is for a U.S. President to travel. This week, as the White House hummed with preparations for his first all-out political trip of the campaign, Harry Truman was making the Big Top look like a pup tent...
Texaco Star Theater (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC Television). Milton Berle emceeing a new show, which hopes to "bring back vaudeville." Opening acts include Pearl Bailey, Ventriloquist Senor Wences, Dancers Rosario & Antonio...