Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crosby will of course sing on and on. And not just in records of White Christmas, the tinselly ballad that Crosby, with the help of World War II's general homesickness, transformed into a national holiday anthem. Echoes of Crosby's voice have passed into the styles of every important prerock balladeer in the U.S. Long before his personal style was submerged by Elvis Presley and all his musical progeny, Crosby had become not only one of the world's richest entertainers, worth tens of millions, but perhaps the most influential pop singer of his time. Last...
...singing and dancing with Frank Sinatra at an "elegant swellegant" party and playing a concertina and crooning True Love, as only the first crooner could croon, to not-yet-royal Grace Kelly. Unlike many stars, Crosby surrounded himself with other big talents. He worked with Fred Astaire in Holiday Inn (in which he sang White Christmas), with Ethel Barrymore in Just for You and with Ingrid Bergman in Bells of St. Mary...
Clearly, Alexandra is willing to invest much time and effort on her apparent calling. Last Monday, she went down to the Boston set for a costume fitting, and found that what she thought was a holiday was no such thing; because the filming was behind schedule, they had decided to go ahead. On her way home that evening, a three-car collision gave her a concussion, dislocated her shoulder and put her in Stillman for two days. On Saturday, she was back on the set despite the rain, with long sleeves covering her ace bandage...
They waited at Tomkins County Airport for another 30 minutes until the bus arrived. They rode to the Holiday Inn, checked into their rooms and feasted on the Athletic Department. But they didn't score...
...recalls. "I also felt that if we could attract important artists, they could gather around them young Irish artists and establish centers of creativity." Touring Ireland, TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer found little indication as yet of any such cultural renaissance. But Haughey's notion of a permanent tax holiday for artists has at least stopped the drain of home-grown talent...