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Word: merman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhausted member of the "Nausiev Dancers," she fairly hoofed her dirndl off in a parody on visiting Russian dance companies set to a Volga-rized score from Annie Get Your Gun. Even in a too-predictable "cavalcade of U.S. musical comedy" medley with Julie Andrews-a Merman-Martin act, complete with audience applause to greet every familiar tune-Carol's mugging saved the cliches from being too cloying. While Julie sang dramatically: "You've been in love, or so you said, you should know better . . .", Carol, suddenly smitten with guilt, put bent fingers in mouth and averted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: Carol the Clown | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...Hope Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob's guests are Ethel Merman and Maximilian Schell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...modern notables from Winston Churchill to Mickey Spillane. The old edition brushed off goof as "a ridiculous, stupid person." Now. in amplification, Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as complaining that someone "made a goof." Elizabeth Taylor broadens sick by speaking of "a room smelling rather of sick." Ethel Merman says, "Two shows a day drain a girl," and Willie Mays warns, "Hit too many homers and people start puffing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Vox Populi, Vox Webster | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

Married. Audrey Meadows, 36, China-born comedienne who was Sid Caesar's fourth TV wife; and Robert F. Six, 54, bustling president of Continental Airlines; she for the second time, he for the third (previous incumbent: Ethel Merman); in Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 1, 1961 | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...Ethel Merman's hotel room was teeming with magnolias, chrysanthemums and carnations to celebrate her San Francisco opening last week in Gypsy. Though allergic to flowers, Songstress Merman did not sneeze once. The flowers were all fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taste: A Rose Is Not a Rose | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

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