Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lunched at the Grove, commiserated with his five-year-old daughter Darby over the illness of a doll, went to his office, where he found the press demanding a comment on Adlai Stevenson's visit to Florida. Said Collins: "I am not endorsing any Democratic candidate, as you know, but if you were to ask me who the next President of the U.S. was going to be, I'd answer: Mr. Stevenson...
...taken." David slowed his jaws momentarily, grasped Tony's reins and waited for his sisters to get in beside him. As the photographers fired at will, Barbara Anne, 6, assumed a dignified mien, staring thoughtfully out across the presidential fields. Susan, almost 4, watched skeptically and clutched her doll, whose name changes almost daily (current one: Drew Hushing Eisenhower...
...Hoffmann had some serviceable singing by the large cast, with Tenor Richard Tucker in particularly mellow voice and French Baritone Martial Singher singing with enormous power and control. Roberta Peters was the pert doll. The standout was Soprano Lucine Amara. who brought to the stage the kind of dazzling vocal splendor that made the Met famous. The sound of her voice was eggshell-fragile, sunset-colored, and so surprisingly powerful that the audience burst into cheers at the end of her big aria...
...Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), cannot raise the rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana, inside 24 hours, with a doll (Jean Simmons) named Sarah Brown, from the Save-A-Soul Mission...
Back on the podium, he was as loose-jointed as a rag doll as he conducted Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. The frenzied applause, foot-stamping, cries of "bravo," and rhythmic chants of Mitropoulos continued for a full 20 minutes. Next day, after an unscheduled concert for overflow crowds of the night before, Mitropoulos found that he was not too exhausted for the royal meal, after all. ("The King's expecting me, and I hear he has a good lunch waiting...