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...Call the Whole Thing Off were ephemeral, Gershwin at least had the satisfaction of hearing a nation sing them. In the Pulitzer Prize musicomedy Of Thee I Sing, nothing was more memorable than his fantastic song, Of Thee I Sing, Baby. Raffish tunes from his Negro opera Porgy and Bess (I Got Plenty of No thin', A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So), stole into the fanciest record albums in the U. S. Fox paid Gershwin $100,000 to write music for the cinema Delicious. He wrote the score for the Astaire-Ginger Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Gershwin | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...good Queen Bess's glorious days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE ARE THE DAYS | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...good Queen Bess's time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE ARE THE DAYS | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Added plump Mrs. Elizabeth ("Bess") Farley, whose desire for money is generally believed to be the prime reason for her husband's announced intention of leaving the Cabinet: "And tell him the Parleys aren't Roosevelts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Hearst, Farley & Roosevelts | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...images, spoke effusively about the difficulties which she encountered in the course of making the statues, and stressed the fact that in the case of the laboratories, the architect and the sculptress herself were always in perfect accord. She said she had named the animal on the right, Queen Bess, and the other, Queen Victoria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhinoceri Unveiling Marks Completion Of Biological Laboratory Construction | 5/13/1937 | See Source »

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