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...Other Love (Perry Como; Victor). One of the better ballads from the new Rodgers & Hammerstein show, Me and Juliet. Crooner Como is in top form in the Romeo role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Election day was seven weeks off, but on the campaign's first Sunday, Italians from the shore of Como to the slums of Palermo gathered at a record 2,300 political rallies. Young volunteers rushed about with paintbrushes, paste pots and bills, to plaster Italy's piazze and palazzi, walls and ruins with the confusingly mixed-up slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties. (Example: one party flaunted the rising sun, a second a full sun, a third the setting sun; at least three small parties encroached on the Communists' hammer & sickle.) There were some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Campaign Begins | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Wild Horses (Perry Como; Victor). A cheerful brag that it would take wild horses, obstacle courses and superior forces to keep Crooner Como away from his true love. The ditty has the distinct musical advantage of being built around a theme from The Horseman, a little piano piece for children by Robert Schumann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Wild Horses (Perry Como; Victor). The tune gallops along like chase music for a western, with Como repeating over & over again that it will take more than wild horses to keep him from his bridle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Feb. 16, 1953 | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...chair, wide-eyed and alert to every move and inflection of the TV salesman. His interest is professional and his appraisal is that of a connoisseur. For when he is not listening to commercials, Dick Stark is delivering them. He sells Chesterfield cigarettes on TV's Perry Como Show and Gangbusters, Amm-i-dent toothpaste on Danger, Camay soap on radio's Pepper Young's Family. "Television has been good to me," says Stark mellowly. "It's given me something I never had in 18 years of radio: fan clubs. I have one in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Word from Our Sponsor | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

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