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Then there was New York's Allie Sherman. Last week, as he gazed around Yankee Stadium, what to his wondering eyes should appear-blue-and-white pennants, thousands upon thousands of them, all emblazoned "Goodbye Allie." The fans even put the words to music with a roaring choir to the tune of Goodnight, Ladies. At that, Sherman was lucky, considering what has happened to the once mighty Giants...
CHRISTMAS WITH LORNE GREENE (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Lome Greene finds a bonanza of Christmas spirit with the help of a 60-voice UNICEF choir...
...success -to ornament their melodies in 18th century style. Robert Shaw (RCA Victor), conducting his own chorale and orchestra, shows how dramatic the scaled-down work can be; his version, with its furiously paced hallelujahs, is hard-hitting theater. The second new recording, by the London Symphony Orchestra and Choir conducted by Colin Davis (Philips), manages to scale the same emotional heights, but with less apparent effort. Moreover, Davis has a superior soprano in Heather Harper, whose floating arias alone are worth the price of the records...
...agile as a panther. There is no repose in him, and the world is a woman to be won. Mary Martin exists to be wooed. She focuses light, as a magnifying glass brings the sun to a pinpoint of burning stillness. When she sings, one may imagine that the choir of the seraphim pauses to take rehearsal notes...
...been quite specific: no driving for three weeks after the operation. And the patient was plainly suffering physical discomfort. During services at the First Christian Church in Johnson City last week, Lyndon Johnson squirmed and squinched around the pew during the sermon, nervously clipped his nails while the choir sang Living for Jesus, even fidgeted during the preacher's prayer for "the rapid recovery of Thy servant, our President...