Word: merman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasionally, Teacher MacDonald allows, her American sixth-graders were "sensitive and brilliant." Somehow, the troublemakers "picked it all up ... in a way that many of our more studious classes might envy." One day she read them Matthew Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, and "there was dead silence, everyone as deeply attentive as a devout congregation in church." It was one day when victory went to teacher...
Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Ethel Merman in Never Follow a Banjo...
...Ethel Merman, with Jimmy Durante...
Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox). Ethel Merman's wonderful brassy voice and personality sparkplug the film version of her Broadway musical hit (TIME, March...
...songstress, plucked from an Oklahoma City TV show, is a ten-year-old named Gayla Peevey. Gayla has a precociously mature manner before a microphone and delivers her lines with the raucous confidence of an Ethel Merman. In recognition of the fact that Hippopotamus has already sold better than 300,000 copies, i.e., about as well as Mommy at the same time last year, Mitch Miller and Columbia are hunting up more songs for her to sing. In a recognition of its own, Oklahoma City's WKY-TV, which discovered Gayla, began an air campaign this week for public...