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...first nightclub appearance, to which he wore a white sheared-beaver coat over his silver tails, wowed the fashionable set, e.g., the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Earl and Countess Cadogan, Lord Foley, Princess Aly Khan. One girl dared to boo, and was sharply rebuked by the management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Liberace & the Nonbelievers | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...notes. Elsewhere, the 70-voice chorus surged in powerful chant, defeating the squeaking, thudding, 50-piece orchestra. When it was over, Stravinsky bowed to the orchestra in the thundering silence and bounced off. Said one festival official: "In a cathedral the audience cannot applaud, but at least they cannot boo, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Murder in the Cathedral | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...AMERICAN FARMER WILL TELL YOU THAT THE MOST INCREDIBLE ACCOMPLISHMENT IN MODERN TIMES WAS THE HERDING OF 1,323 SHEEP INTO A COW PALACE AND MAKING THEM SAY AYE IN UNISON, WITH NOT A SINGLE PROTESTING BAA OR BOO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Pronounced shi-boo-gum-moo, from an Indian word meaning "gathering place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Bonanza in the Bush | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...saunters through the part rather sleepily, without much of the old Bing zing. Sinatra plays the reporter like a dead-end kid with a typewriter. The two of them come off best together in a song-and-dance number, Well, Did You Evah?, in which Bing boo-boo-boos as Sinatra cock-a-doodle-doos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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