Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the modernistic Civic Center in the Rio Grande city of McAllen (pop. 32,728) last week crowded some 650 Texans to cheer Davy Crockett's words from the movie, The Alamo: "There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other, and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat." Then nearly 200 of them announced their resignations from the Democratic Party and pledged their allegiance to the G.O.P. in Texas...
...album of Jazz Variations on Movie Themes was a surprise hit with disk jockeys. He was busy scoring a new movie, planning new album material, and preparing the Gershwin Concerto in F for eleven concerts with the Hollywood Symphony. "When you talk about him," said Saxman Benny Carter, "you gotta be well versed in superlatives...
...heartily. Says Seman, who runs the trade division for the National Committee on the Observance of Mother's Day: "It's like Christmas. If it weren't a gift-giving as well as a holy day, it wouldn't have the popularity it has. You gotta have a concrete symbol. If Christmas was just a church observance, it wouldn't have that heartfelt significance. And don't forget," he adds, "every family has a mother...
...single. Next game against the Los Angeles Angels, he drove in two runs, hit a single and a booming 374-ft. triple. Said battered Angel Pitcher Jerry Casale: "He hit the single off a pitch right in on his fists. The triple came off a high fast ball. We gotta find out how to work this...
...film smells of the theater, though less than most photographed plays. Most of the action takes place in one small room, but that pent-up, gotta-get-outa-here feeling is essential to the story. Regrettably, the actors-all the principals have been held over from the Broadway production-often seem to be shouting past the spectator, as though still playing from habit to the back row, balcony. Only Actress Dee, as the wife, projects her existence without hollering her head off. Actress Sands, as the sister, has a wonderful tomboy charm and most of the funny lines...