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Marais and Miranda sing a song called Chow, Willy which he reconstructed from a South African song about a rat, a mouse and a frog. Columbia Records' pop artists & repertory chief, Mitch Miller, decided it would be just the thing for Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine. Marais invented a man named Willy and changed the song's animals to people. "It would not be nice to bill Mr. Laine as a rat and Miss Stafford as a mouse," says Marais. Moreover, as Columbia Records could have told him, and perhaps did, the jukebox trade seldom gets excited about...
...University of Illinois Hospital was as cute as a button. At 15 months they both had handsome, well-formed bodies, twinkling, dark blue eyes and bewitching smiles. They loved to play pat-a-cake, could say "Hi," "Mama," "Dada," and "Nite-nite." They had just learned to say "Frog" too, because mother & father had brought them each a rubber frog. Rodney Dee Brodie was a bit smaller than Roger Lee Brodie, so Rodney got more attention. This made Roger mad, and he showed it by swatting Rodney across the face or grabbing his ear. Rodney hated this, and cried...
...oboe, English horn and cello. A chorus of eight women and two soloists. Mezzo-Soprano Marni Nixon and Tenor Hughes Cuenod, were the only voices. Stravinsky conducted in his usual jerky, graceless style, looking, with his prominent eyes and waving tailcoat, rather like a dapper little Beatrix Potter frog...
Some 100 meters off the Isle of Capri one day last week, a stocky (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) Italian Air Force lieutenant named Raimondo Bucher donned a man-from-Mars outfit: rubber frog feet, web-fingered gloves, heavy goggles, and a partial face mask with rubber-padded steel clips to block his nostrils. In his hands he carried a 44-lb. spear gun, weighted with an extra 4.4 Ibs. of lead. Bucher. poised on the rail of the small ship bobbing in the rough water, was aiming to become the first man ever to "skin-dive" (i.e., without...
When he was a Nebraska farm boy, little Alvin Johnson studied so hard that his classmates called him "Professor Frog." He read so much that his neighbors were sure he would go "brain-broke." But to his own Danish-born parents, Alvin was something special. "This boy," proclaimed his grandfather proudly, "will be a philosopher...