Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comets with their very big "Rock Around the Clock," a song which caused major riots from Boise to Berlin. However the Comets, like most of those achieving popular music stardom, turned out to be somewhat of a flash in the pan, and yielded to such people as Fats Domino and Elvis Presley...
Formlessness, informality and a sincere respect for the sponsor's product have long been part of the Garroway formula. Masquerading in a misty domino of entertainment that only partly concealed its real intent, much of what passed across the nation's television screens last week was also devoted to selling some sort of product, tangible or intangible. At least three of the top shows of the week, Disneyland, Warner Brothers Presents, and the M-G-M Parade were blatant commercials from beginning to end, designed only to lure viewers away from their telesets and into the nearest movie...
...LAMB CHOP. In Los Angeles, a beer ad urged: DON'T GO TO WAIST DRINK REGAL PALE. In New York. Minneapolis and five other cities, Stouffer's restaurants offered special low-calorie lunches; the Pennsylvania Railroad had a 470-calorie "Streamliner" on its dining-car menus. Domino Sugar asked a "diet-conscious public to recognize that three teaspoons of sugar actually contain fewer calories than half a grapefruit . . . or an apple ... or even three small tomatoes...
Palestrina is represented by the aforementioned Supplicationes (a litany to the Virgin with each stanza punctuated with a "Kyrie") and by Confitemini Domino, based on the 106th Psalm. Both are works of quiet persuasiveness and the voices seldom rise above piano. Variations or emotional intensity are expressed by slight dynamic alterations and by changes in the intervals between voices...
...Faraway Farm near Winston-Salem, N.C., M. W. Larry Domino 5, an uncle of Champion Larry Domino 12th. was also in the news. Owner Donald A. (for nothing) Leach, a former adman now in the breeding business, had bought him in 1951 for "more than $10,000 and less than $25,000," and trucked him from Texas to North Carolina. But Larry began showing signs of listlessness and lameness in one leg. Leach's veterinarian, Dr. James T. Dixon, diagnosed Larry's ills as rheumatoid arthritis. While Larry lost weight-and his interest in heifers-Leach persuaded...