Word: glens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUMMER BROTHERS SMOTHERS SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Doleful Comedian Pat Paulsen joins Singer Glen Campbell in a song-and-comedy hour in which the Brothers themselves appear as guests along with Nancy Sinatra and Joey Bishop...
Other songwriters besides Jim Webb have reeled off a string of hit records, including two that won Grammy awards in the same year. Others have been asked to compose-and sometimes arrange and conduct-for such top singers as Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Glen Campbell. Others have formed their own publishing and production firms and boosted their annual income to $350,000. But for the others, such achievement has usually filled out a lifetime. Jim Webb has done it all in 18 months. Now one of the hot test talents in pop music...
Webb wrote a wistful ballad about the affair called By the Time I Get to Phoenix. As recorded by Glen Campbell, it rose medium-high in the bestseller charts and won Campbell a Grammy award for the best male vocal performance of 1967. Meantime, Webb and a friend were planning a movie about a balloon trip. The only part of the venture that got off the ground was Webb's title song. It was recorded by The 5th Dimension, and it soared high in the charts, sold 875,000 copies and won some more Grammies. Trans World Airlines bought...
...under way. Often the instrument is one human spirit, galvanized by an intolerable burden of contrition or shame. "I came to the conclusion that our country is very far from what we say it is in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution," says Alan S. Traugott, 44, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a white suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that is predominantly black. Now jobless, he intends to dedicate himself full time...
...former president (1917-29, 1932-45) and chairman (1929-55) of the National Biscuit Co., who raised a small biscuit-maker to a modern corporate giant (1967 sales: $764 million) that makes everything from crackers to candies, cookies to ice cream cones, and sells them throughout the world; in Glen Ridge...