Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Alan Aurthur, 56, television playwright, who wrote for such 1950s series as Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One; of lung cancer; in New York City. A Marine combat correspondent during World War II, Aurthur wrote short fiction for The New Yorker before becoming one of TV's Big Four dramatists (the other three: Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, Paddy Chayefsky). Aurthur's award-winning credits included Man on the Mountain top (1954) and A Man Is Ten Feet Tall...
Penn State did all this, and still remained the Avis of big-time college football. It was a frequent also-ran in the weekly A.P. and U.P.I, polls of sportswriters and coaches, but never was it No. 1. This year, however, the men from State College, Pa., finally made it to the top -first in all the polls and, after last week's 17-10 win over intrastate rival Pittsburgh, the only major unbeaten team left in the nation...
...song's smash success coincided with disco's coming-out party, and became a kind of marching song for the disco revolution. Donna continues to ride high and handsome as the craze vaults all class barriers, from blue-collar to café society. Still big in the clubs, she has worked up a concert act that she is currently taking through 14 cities before invading the citadel, Las Vegas. Eager to wade into the musical mainstream, Donna dusts off The Man I Love and Some of These Days and presses them into a stage extravaganza that doesn't yield an inch...
Morals were so strict around the Boston home of Andrew Gaines that when eldest Daughter Donna told him she was flying off to Europe to be in a production of Hair, she got her face slapped soundly. "Daddy," she pleaded, "this is my big chance. Shirley Temple was a little kid. Did her mother stop her?" Dad's riposte, or his reaction to 1) her marriage to an Austrian actor from Hair, 2) her divorce in 1974 or 3) his first hearing of Love to Love You Baby are not a matter of public record. But snapshots...
LOOK AT THE cover of this album. Two slightly out of focus ethereal looking women (or are they nymphs?) with big, liquid eyes, and fluffy angel hair peer out. They come straight off those cards from the Coop that show young girls in white gauzy dresses, strolling on the beach, holding white conch shells to their ears. Your grandmother would love a photo of you just like this...