Word: copacabanas
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...bough overhanging the Niagara River hard by the falls, and with a high wind snatching the notes from her throat atop the RCA Building. Last winter, just before an 8 o'clock TV rehearsal, a call came: Would she appear on the 9:30 show at the Copacabana that night? The regular star, Billy Daniels, had been accused of shooting somebody in a saloon row, and couldn't get sprung in time. "When I got to the club, they didn't want to let me in. I had on a leather jacket and black wool slacks...
...Sportin' Life] decided to go scalp the piano. Ned Wright [Robbins] felt the spirit striving and took everybody to the sunny side of the street . . . One of the Russian cats got the spirit and did a buck and wing routine that flipped everybody's wig. Everything was copacabana, just like the tree-all root...
When Cafe Filho. looking gay and nimble, moved back to his apartment near Copacabana Beach that afternoon, army troops and red-capped riot police surrounded the building, keeping him under what amounted to house arrest...
...minor success in radio soap operas, e.g., Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, and in nightclubs.. One night in 1943 Ensign Bill Woodward, just out of Harvard and just sworn in for wartime service with the Navy, spotted a girl wearing a cat costume in the chorus line at the Copacabana. It was Ann, and it was love. After a two-week engagement, they were married in Tacoma, Wash. Bill went to sea duty (later he was one of 272 survivors of 916 aboard the torpedoed carrier Liscome Bay), and Ann moved in with her new in-laws...
...princesses last week, and their subjects hardly knew where to pay homage first. At the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room, demure Dorothy Dandridge rambled through her slinky-but-sweet songs about love and how to enjoy it. A few blocks away, in the downstairs den known as the Copacabana, petite Eartha Kitt took her listeners on a quadrilingual (English, French, Spanish, Turkish) tour over much the same ground, sticking mostly to its back alleys...