Word: clara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest yuk to hit television since Sid Caesar's salad wilted is a Goofy-Cousin-Clara sort of a girl with a grin full of teeth, a manner both tentative and brash, and a talent that comes bubbling up every time she opens her big mouth, shakes a leg, or crosses an eye. Carol Burnett, 29, who last week shared the podium with Julie Andrews in a TV special called Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, has a warmth that neither coaxial cable nor gloom of darkened living room can dim. She is even funny away from the camera...
Baptist Tambourines. The Ward Singers were drawing audiences of 20,000 nearly 20 years ago, and many of today's good gospelers were trained under Clara Ward...
...there was no general market for genuine gospel until Mahalia Jackson made her first European tour in 1952. Now there are about 20 well-known professional groups, like the Stars of Faith, singing for pay around the country and getting paid well. Such gospelers as Clara Ward and her Ward Singers, who tour in a custom-built lavender Chrysler, are taking the Word as far afield as nightclubs and the borscht circuit. Even the big record companies have begun to realize that gospel sells-chiefly, as one A. & R. man points out, because "gospel singing has the greatest concentration...
...little (5 ft. 3 in., 105 Ibs.) woman with a big voice, Clara started singing in the choir of Philadelphia's Ebenezer Baptist Church when she was five, soon was singing in a trio with her mother and sister, formed her own group with several other singers in 1941. The best pianist in gospel, she also represents the best of the unadulterated Baptist-style singers who work in the old hymn-singing tradition. In Washington her singers appeared in flowing white robes with purple sashes from shoulder to knee. They often move into the audience slapping tambourines while singing...
...Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S.J., 73, brisk, tousle-haired explorer and lecturer who won the nickname "The Glacier Priest" in the Alps but applied it in Alaska, which he observed and filmed during 33 visits on borrowed time from his post as head of the University of Santa Clara's geology department; of a stroke; in Santa Clara, Calif...