Word: chers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...circus for the first time when I was twelve," Matthau recalled. "It was one of the happiest times of my childhood." Matthau's son Charlie, 10, was crowned King of the Circus. Then came the grand parade of elephants with spangled riders led off by Sonny and Cher and their daughter Chastity, 4, who was crowned Queen of the Circus. Star after star -from Carol Burnett to Jimmy Stewart-rode once around the ring, helping to raise $25,000 for the S.S. Hope, a floating clinic full of doctors who sail the seas to teach medicine in underdeveloped countries...
...Nixon's text and to a White House background briefing by Treasury Secretary Charles Shultz, who put the price freeze in perspective by comparing it to "shock treatment." Those who watched the President on CBS were spared such explication. The network went straight back to Sonny and Cher. Instant analysis annoys the White House when correspondents challenge presidential dicta. In this case, however, CBS simply ignored the Administration's own background information-a service to neither the President nor the public...
Like a lot of other performers, Sonny and Cher Bono are at loose ends because of the TV writers' strike in Hollywood. But the long-and-short-of-it pair are having a good time hopping from nightclub to concert. They scotch all rumors that their marriage is cracking up. "Who'd get custody of all our Indian and Italian jokes?" cracked Cher...
...founded Atlantic on a shoestring and a collection of 25,000 old blues 78s. In 1950s brought in Brother Nesuhi and their friend Jerry Wexler, signed Ray Charles, LaVern Baker, the Modern Jazz Quartet and "Boss of the Blues" Joe Turner. In the 1960s, his firm introduced Sonny and Cher, more recently Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and Roberta Flack as well as rock groups like Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Also hired young singer released by Columbia Records, turned her into Soul Empress Aretha Franklin. Sold his lively, swinging company in 1967 to firm that eventually became...
...president of the National Association of Government Employees; and J.M. Calhoon, president of the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, which gave COPE its single biggest contribution in 1970. The catch from show business includes Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, Danny Thomas, Eva Gabor, and Sonny & Cher...