Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suite 244, formerly occupied by Idaho's beaten, guitar-playing Glen Taylor, was stacked with flowers. Shortly it became stacked with Pennsylvania well-wishers, many of whom had ridden into political office on the Duff coattails, had traveled on to Washington bedecked with yellow ribbons reading "Good Luck, Jim" to celebrate "Duff Day." Scowling with happy embarrassment, Duff took the subterranean trolley over to the Senate chamber with his senior colleague, Senator Ed Martin...
...then a passage from Euripides, finally a leisurely talk with Guest Pamela Brown (the leading woman of Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning) about a ghost in London's Drury Lane Theater. With these ingredients, and a background of German lieder played on a guitar, Actress Lilli Palmer (currently starring with husband Rex Harrison in Broadway's Bell, Book and Candle) last week began a new TV show over Manhattan's station WCBS-TV (Thurs...
...poise. In a full, flowing voice, at its darkest the color of a ripe Spanish olive, she sang easily (if a trifle affectedly) through a group of German lieder and on to the songs of her native Spain. In her last encore, she gracefully accompanied herself on the guitar...
...York City's American Federation of Musicians' Local 802 had long been un decided about the ukulele. The question: Is it 1) a non-professional musical toy or 2) a professional musical instrument? Union banjo and guitar players, who have been complaining of losing jobs to non-union "uke" players, plunked for No. 2. Last week, after pondering the complaints and listening to a demonstration uke performance of Liszt's Liebestraum which struck them as professionally impressive, the executive board of Local 802 made its decision. Henceforth, all practitioners of the uke in 802's jurisdiction...
Accompanied by a guitar, he sang "The Illinois Pioneer Song." Sandburg also composed ox empere for his immediate audience...