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...Manhattan's august music house, G. Schirmer Inc., do-it-yourself Calypso Kits (including bongo drums, a gourd and a pair of maracas) were selling briskly last week for $24.50 and up. Columbia Records has announced an album of calypso songs especially styled for children. Obscure pop singers are desperately shaking their hips and broadening their A's in the rush to learn calypso. And Hollywood is considering a dozen calypso films, including Calypso Grips So, and (taking advantage of the best of two possible worlds) Bop Girl Goes Calypso...
...idea is a good one, only it should be expanded. Bowling alleys, billiard tables, and a swimming pool should be available. For the more aesthetic, bongo drums and dart boards should be present. No expense should be spared to further mutual understanding and intellectual advancement. The Radcliffe Administration should give serious consideration to this suggestion, and ignore those penny-pinching party-poopers who just advocate keeping Agassiz open a few hours more...
...total billings were dragging their heels. As chairman of the board, Weaver was supposed to "work as a team" with new President Robert Sarnoff (TIME, Dec. 19). But he soon discovered that his part of the teamwork gave him a lot of spare time for balancing exercises on the bongo board he kept in his office (see cut). Last week Weaver knew that the time to boost himself had come. With a fat NBC severance check for his unexpired contract in his pocket. Weaver resigned, touching off one of the biggest NBC shake-ups in years. As a prologue...
...Bongo Bongo. Dressed sometimes in a business suit, sometimes in a gay sports shirt and slacks, Henry Kaiser charges all over his 18-acre resort to make decisions and supervise projects personally. Blue prints in hand, he pursues carpenters up scaffolds, sets deadlines for each project and sees to it that they are met. He even participates in floorshow rehearsals, is not above taking a turn at the bongo drums...
...daughter of a prominent pickpocket (Vittorio De Sica), conies hippety-hipping up to a taxi one day with a couple of boy friends. They ask the driver (Roberto Mastroianni) to head for the beach. On the way, Sophia keeps breathing down the cabby's neck and crooning Bongo Bongo Bongo in his ear. At the beach he waits while she takes a swim...