Word: hi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being Teresa Brewer, who had made it. I did go to college. Then my father sent me an ad from a Las Vegas club for chorus girls. You had to be at least 5 ft. 7 and have a Phi Beta Kappa key [the group was called the Hi Phi Betas]. By that time I had become thoroughly convinced that you weren't supposed to be a leader, you were supposed to marry one. I learned to Uncle Tom, to giggle and laugh and say, "How clever of you to know what time it is." You conceal your intelligence...
...sound. Alas, the $17.7 million hall was something else to hear-strident, cold, weak in bass. In succeeding years, a series of four acoustical repair jobs (total cost: $2.5 million) were made, culminating in the replacement of the entire ceiling in 1969. But to little avail. In 1973, Hi-Fi Magnate Avery Fisher donated $10 million to keep the place going. Accordingly, Lincoln Center put his name on it, which was just as well. His money was used for the most radical step of all. Starting last May, the hall was gutted and a new interior built...
...crowded, the family simply shifts the bones of those who had made "bad marriages." The flavor of refugee New York in the '40s, classy but cashless, also comes to the reader engagingly filtered through the pride and prejudice of a precocious, lonely girl trying to make it hi a rich and snobby school...
...Hi, my dad graduated '53, played defensive tackle and was the number two ground gainer his senior year," an enterprising son of Harvard told the bartender while he sipped a gratis whiskey sour...
...dynamo. After she whipped through Maine, Senator Edmund Muskie called Carter to say in awe: "Everywhere I go, your Aunt Sissy is there." She is in particular demand on the senior-citizen circuit, but she delights all audiences, hauling her own bags and declaring in a soft, honeyed drawl: "Hi, I'm Jimmy Carter's Aunt Sissy. I hope you'll vote for my boy for President...