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...Bye Bye Birdie (book by Michael Stewart; music and lyrics by Charles Strouse & Lee Adams) is not particularly expert, but it doesn't have to be. There is something infectiously and rampageously lively about it. Staged with exuberance by Gower Champion, who is the real hero of the evening, Birdie has the special crazy zip of a bowling ball on the loose, of rifle shots not so much hitting the bull's-eye as overturning the target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Openings on Broadway | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Died. Rosetta Duncan, 58, comic member of the rollicking vaudeville sister team (with Vivian) that did a famed take-off on Uncle Tom's Cabin called Topsy and Eva, popularized some of the classic songs of the '20s (Bye, Bye Blackbird; Side by Side); after an auto accident; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Milestones, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Texas (8-1)-drew a bye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Mother, do you sit up so late? You cry so much, and look so white-Mother, do not cry. Is it because Father does not come home to bring us bread? We shall find Father bye and bye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAY OFF BROADWAY: Last Reel | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...custom-made tie, he gets equally enthusiastic over such diverse works as The Chick, a raucous new recording that spoofs rock 'n' roll and pop records, and Ages of Man, Sir John Gielgud's new readings from Shakespeare. Listening to Johnny Desmond's recording of Bye Bye Barbara, a song about a jilted boy, he joked: "A little masochism goes a long way." He has no patience with the selling semantics of his trade, once cracked: "All this business of ffrr and FDS is just slogans, like 'It Floats,' for Ivory soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Musical Businessman: GODDARD LIEBERSON | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

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