Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...club in Santa Monica, and the Big Click. A demonstration disk played for Warner Bros. record company resulted in her first album, Positively the Most, a title artfully designed to rhyme with Drost. But Joanie had already decided the Drost was dross as far as names went, tried out Joan St. Clair, Joanie Post, and finally decided-for no particular reason-on Joanie Sommers. Says she: "I can't think of myself as anybody else now, even...
Born. To Sir Laurence Olivier, 54, Britain's towering trouper, and his Tony-winning third wife, Actress Joan (A Taste of Honey) Plowright, 32: a son, their first child and his second (the other, by First Wife Jill Esmond, is now 24 and roving in the Far East); in Hove, East Sussex...
...Richard Murphy-aware of what a confusion there is of great, near-great and merely good concert pianists-set out to rank the best of them, and chose four. He seems to have survived the ordeal well: his choices were not seriously challenged. This week, on the occasion of Joan Sutherland's much-cheered debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Murphy dares to rank the greatest sopranos of the day. He finds six outstanding. Readers are again invited to disagree-or even, if they wish, to agree...
Effervescing over the upcoming first season of her fledgling New York Mets, Major Stockholder Joan Whitney Payson, wife of Industrialist Charles Shipman Payson and sister of Publisher John Hay Whitney, assured an interviewer that her socially impeccable family had always confined its patronage to the National League. Single instance of backsliding: "The time that Wheaties was running a most-popular-player contest. Mother [the late Mrs. Payne Whitney] called the cook and asked her please to buy lots of Wheaties for the children and to clip the box tops so she could vote for Joe DiMaggio...
...twelve minutes and through ten curtain calls. Never, confessed the Commander later, had she "heard such sound from the throats of an audience"-and rarely had a modern audience heard such sound from a singer. In her triumphant Met debut-in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor-Soprano Joan Sutherland demonstrated even to the doubters that she is the most accomplished technician in all opera...