Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another foray into national politics came as a climax to his long-standing protest against the Sacco-Vanzetti decision. On the 20th anniversary of the execution, in 1947, Schlesinger presented a plaque honoring the pair to the Governor of Massachusetts, requesting that they be honored in the same manner as Roger Williams and Ann Hutchins. The Governor refused to accept...
...with libretto by Film Writer Lewis Allan and music by Broadway Composer and Conductor Lehman Engel. The story: a determined young thing (Ruth Fleming) wins her psychiatrist by telling him her contrivedly erotic dreams. While she sings prettily of herself ("I've been kissed but not mated") a pair of dancers act out her words and the young doctor (sung by a fine baritone, Warren Galjour) loses all his Freudian detachment over what he sees. The 30-minute score is neatly professional...
...Liberace phenomenon resembles earlier crazes over Frank Sinatra and Johnnie Ray. But Liberace fans are more likely to belong to the two-way stretch than to the bobby-sox crowd. Women mob him wherever he goes. They bake cakes for him. They knit for him (one fan contributed a pair of socks embroidered with small pianos). Last year they sent him 27,000 valentines. One grandmother and her daughter have been following him for months from town to town. Says his brother George, who conducts the background music on his show: "He's got musical hypnosis." Says his manager...
...film score), emasculated versions of popular Chopin pieces, and Debussy's Clair de Lune, accompanied by five Madison Square Garden spotlights making like the moon. Hardly anybody had time to decide whether he was playing all the notes: everything he did (including a soft-shoe dance and a pair of vocal numbers) was over before it could begin to pall...
...Washington. D.C., policemen nabbed James Haley after he was discovered applying a file and a pair of pliers to the back door of St. Patrick's Church rectory, told the judge that he was merely seeking "spiritual guidance...