Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...written 16 songs, which he characterizes as "very lofty." Brash Tunesmith Merrill believes cliches are the secret of pop success; he keeps notebooks full of them, from which came his first click, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked a Cake (1950). Bachelor Merrill's income (currently $300,000) does not depend on inspiration: Mambo Italiano was turned out for Mitch Miller, who wanted a dialect mambo for Rose mary Clooney. Tina Marie was ordered by Perry Como, who "wanted a rhythm song." "It's a job and I do it," says...
Even the spring social openers were disrupted. In Lyman Laboratory students bemoaned the cancellation of the Monday afternoon tea-and-cake session with the Physics staff. At the Lampoon offices the annual robin-redbreast hunt was postponed until the thaw...
...Pope, declining his throne, motioned to his personal servant to place a chair for him on the floor "so that I won't look too big." Behind him, a blue-smocked boy and a white-smocked girl laboriously lit the 80 candles on a dove-dotted birth day cake bought by the children themselves. Then, with the blazing cake before him, the Pope found himself the center of a dancing ring-around-a-rosy. A tremulous child chorus burst out: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, Holy Father, happy birthday...
Lally, editor of the Catholic periodical, the "Pilot," emphasized the need to replace "moral and spiritual values" in a public school education. He said children are now taught to consider religion as the "frosting on the cake...
...100th birthday of the Republican National Committee, top Presidential Aide Sherman Adams and G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall celebrated at a Washington party, munched morsels of cake, in their high spirits apparently forgot to remove the candles from their goodies...