Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Jay Gould III, 26, wartime AAFlyer, great-grandson of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould, also a flyer in his day and way, and Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, daughter of Actor Nigel Bruce: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Bruce...
Billion Dollar Baby (books & lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Morton Gould; produced by Paul Feigay & Oliver Smith) takes a cockeyed look, through purple-colored glasses, at the fantastic '20s. In a swirl of burlesque it lurches through speakeasies, totters through dance marathons, plugs racketeers, pummels gold diggers, plays hob with billionaires. Almost all of it is bold and un-Broadwayish, and bits and pieces of it are delightful. But as a whole, it doesn't quite come...
...Texas Guinan. There is a wonderful takeoff of a big Ziegfeldish production number in which showgirls appear as bright-plumaged birds. There is a funny ballad in which a gangster reminisces about his rubbed-out pals. Most of Jerome Robbins' dances are lively and amusing; some of Morton Gould's tunes are witty, if not very tuneful...
Autopsies have shown that some 16% of U.S. citizens get trichinosis at one time or another. But Dr. Gould now suspects that the figure...
...Government does a fairly good job of keeping an eye on pork likely to be incompletely cooked, hamburgers and frankfurters. But Dr. Gould warned that the words "U.S. inspected and passed" don't mean much on roasts and chops. The Government stopped making microscopic examinations of meat...