Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Glen Taylor, onetime running mate of Henry Wallace whose yodeling and guitar-plunking during last month's primaries failed to impress Idaho Democrats (he has demanded a recount), announced that he may go into the theatrical producing business...
...Overboard. Oddly enough, Heyerdahl had no trouble in raising his crew of five, all but one of whom were landlubbers and all itching to go. Herman Watzinger, an engineer, and Ethnologist Bengt Danielsson invited themselves when they heard about the stunt. Knut Haugland, Tor-stein Raaby and guitar-playing Painter Eric Hesselberg all jumped at the chance when they were asked. There is no indication, in the book at least, that they regretted it for a moment...
Voice of Hollywood. In Lima in 1941, the late Grace Moore heard her, promised to launch her on a career in the U.S. But shortly after Yma got to Manhattan in 1947, the famed soprano was killed in a plane crash. With husband Moises Vivanco playing the guitar and cousin Cholita Rivero dancing ("The Inca Taky Trio"), Yma sang at a Pan American Union concert in Washington in 1948. Demanded the Times-Herald critic, after praising her to the skies: "What's the matter with...
...went back to de girl an' she say, 'What did mamma tell you?' He looked at Irene-her name was Irene-an' here what he said ..." Then, his coal-black face gleaming fiercely and his horny hands scratching his twelve-string guitar, the murderous old Minstrel Lead Belly would sing...
Paris Dressmaker Christian Dior, creator of 1947's now dead "New Look," announced that for the winter of 1950-51 well-dressed women would have the "Guitar Look": rounded shoulders, pinched waists, pleated hips-with the "doubly curved, but classical lines of the guitar...