Word: billye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUKE ELLINGTON: "AND HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM BILL" (RCA Victor). The Ellington band plays an affectionate tribute to Billy Strayhorn, who was the Duke's alter ego and musical collaborator for 29 years before his death last year. Among the dozen fine Strayhorn selections are some mellow successes from...
Overwhelmed. The shifting group of conferees contained its own roster of notables: Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Billy Graham, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Karl Mundt, Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Finally, after a brief break for a nap and a breakfast of cold cereal, Nixon convened still another meeting. By...
Readers wary of the plush language of the "gadzooks, hussy!" school may be suspicious of the special idiom of Bring Larks. But there is no Errol Flimflam here. Keneally has devised a garbled-Gaelic speech that seems perfectly to fit the character of his protagonist who, like another gifted innocent...
The Little People's organization was founded in 1957 by Billy Barty, one of the few who conform to the popular misconception that most midgets are in show business. Barty is, and has done well.* Now 43, Barty stands 3 ft. 9 in. He arrived with Wife Shirley, 4...
There are three specific people named: Sgt. Pepper, Billy Shears, and Mr. Kite. Sgt. Pepper himself has provided no clues. Billy Shears, on the other hand, has lots of possibilities. One night last February we tried to call him. The transatlantic operator was very friendly, but refused to place the...