Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 10-The House refused to seat Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell today...
Back home, entertainers like Jan Brinker and most of her peers would be taking second or third billing in nightclubs. Johnny Leggett, 28, is a country-and-western warbler who never made it past the smalltime in the States, but in Viet Nam he pulls $1,000 a week. Margee McGlory, a Negro pop, blues and jazz singer who does a fair imitation of Eartha Kitt, makes only $300 a week, but that is more than she was able to earn at home. Oliver Pacini, an accordionist who has spent years playing small dates in and around San Francisco, earns...
...performing areas a nightmare. Many of them use taped accompaniments rather than Vietnamese sidemen (who somehow cannot get with the Stateside beat), so one of the more common perils is the blown fuse. But many performers do go, and not only for the pay and the experience. Says Jan Brinker: "We're here for the money, but we also feel an obligation to do what we can for the men out here...
...London, when Trova showed them, they were called by one critic "the cumulative image of Man as victim, stereotype, faceless statistic." In Minneapolis, they typified, according to Curator Jan van der Marck, "the modern enigma." Trova himself has said, "The falling man is a personal hypothetical theory on the nature of man. I believe that man is, first of all, an imperfect creature...
...over with Johnson. Yet there have been no meaningful hints about what Johnson intends to concentrate on, and the silence has led, in fact, to speculation that the State of the Union address may be delayed until late January instead of being delivered shortly after the Congress convenes on Jan...