Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of a three-week run at the Copa, Bobby Darin exemplifies the shallowing reservoir of young U.S. pop singing talent-an immodest boy with modest ability, whose fan club has just a little more to crow about than the followers of Frankie Avalon or the Fabian societies. Yet Darin has made six LP albums that have sold more than 1,500,000 copies. His trademark single recordéa driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife-has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. He has all the bookings he can handle in America...
MERGER COCKTAIL is being mixed by National Distillers (Old Crow, Gilbey's) and Bridgeport Brass Co. to create bigger National Distillers, with assets of $625 million. As unlikely at first glance as marriage of a parson and a show girl, merger would actually make good sense because National, second biggest U.S. maker of polyethylene (first: Union Carbide), also owns 60% of Reactive Metals, Inc. (zirconium, titanium, tantalum, columbium), managed by Bridgeport...
Boynton kept right on fighting the case. He appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court-where lawyers supplied by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People attempted to turn the Boynton case into a legal landmark in the struggle against Jim Crow. Arguing on broad constitutional grounds, Boynton's lawyers claimed that he had been deprived of his rights under the U.S. Constitution's equal protection, due process and commerce clauses...
...ceremony more feather-filled than a pillow fight, Eleanor Roosevelt, 76, became an honorary Indian six times over in Beverly Hills, Calif. Presented with the traditional caparisons of his tribe by Chief Wah-Nee-Ota of the Creeks, Mrs. Roosevelt was also duly adopted as a member of the Crow, Seminole, Navaho, Apache and Mohawk tribes. The occasion, according to the Indians, was originally inspired by their gratitude to F.D.R., who during a 1938 drought helped them retrieve a sacred beaded thunderbird from the Smithsonian Institution, where it had been gathering dust and making no rain...
...volunteers. "We're going to help them. We might have to run a kind of Berlin airlift during the next week or two." The slowly growing number of white pupils at Frantz was still another evidence that the power of the mob was ebbing. In New Orleans, Jim Crow education was dying hard-but did seem to be dying surely...