Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...submitted the disk to Liberty Records, President Si Waronker flipped too. By now, the record has sold more than a million copies. The next Patience and Prudence effort, Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now, sold 700,000 and made the sisters one of the hottest properties in the unpredictable pop-music world. Last week the sisters were hard at it again, cutting a song called We Can't Sing Rhythm and Blues, written by Daddy...
Soon after the U.S. Air Force opened its missile test center near Melbourne. Fla. (pop. 14,500), Principal Frank Brown of the Melbourne High School found himself facing an unusual problem. The children of the center's scientists and engineers had absorbed so much knowledge at home that the school's regular science program was highly inadequate. Even the addition of an electronics course failed to satisfy them. Then last spring one of Brown's teachers got an idea for a way to take care not only of the knowledgeable newcomers but also of Melbourne children with...
Since his election to the Illinois state legislature in 1954, Paul Simon, publisher of the weekly Tribune of Troy (pop. 1,260), has "heard newspapers cursed in the cloakroom and fought on the floor." He began to wonder if the "small but vocal group attacking newspapers" reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the press among state representatives and senators. Publisher Simon mailed out questionnaires to legislators of the 48 states. The nonpartisan survey, whose results were published this week in the March issue of Quill magazine, gave politicians a rare opportunity to talk back to the press...
...very act of milking the comic side of Jewish family life, sadly waters it down. Schulman belongs, in fact, to the two-faucet school of playwriting: what's not comedy is sentiment. And at the end, anything knotty or disconcerting just goes down the drain: Pop may play fast and loose, but he loves his son; Uncle may rant and roar, but he eventually writes out a check. There are amusing enough moments; Garson Kanhvs staging is brisk, and Paul Douglas' father surprisingly believable. But as a new theater form-the problem farce-A Hole in the Head...
Thus newspaper ads last week announced the debut of subscription- television this summer in the growing Oklahoma oil town of Bartlesville (pop: 28,000), 60 miles north of Tulsa. Starting in June, Bartlesville TV families will be able to watch 13 first-run Hollywood films a month on their home sets, free of commercials, at a cost of $9.50, or 73? a movie...