Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pop singers are usually singers before they know it, but they do not become pop without effort. Among the newest names close to the top are three who got there through extraordinary efforts...
...Suez Canal crisis echoed in a surge of discontent from tiny Panama (pop. 900,000). Miffed at not being invited to the London conference on Suez, the government of President Ricardo Arias issued a defiant communiqué notifying the world that "this republic will not consider herself obliged to respect any of the decisions or recommendations adopted by the conference.'' Panama should have been invited, said the communiqué, because 1) the Panama Canal "is in some respects similar to the Suez Canal," and 2) a large merchant fleet flies the Panamanian flag.* On a visit to Cairo...
...Dance. These unscheduled bits were topped with great helpings of pre-fabricated entertainment: trumpet-voiced Ethel Merman belting her show tunes through the rafters, Irving Berlin's trembling version of his own song, Ike for Four More Years, the pear-shaped tones of Nat "King" Cole's pop singing, the high reaches of the Met's Patrice Munsel, the stylized chitchat of Mutual's old-time Cinemactress Constance Bennett ("I don't feel well; I feel frazzled...
...Negro and has been blind from birth. Al's blacksmith father sent him to the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock, where he sang soprano until he was 17. Long before he graduated, in 1936, he had memorized every nuance of all the pop singers of the day. One fellow named Pha Terrell, who was featured with Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy, used to let Al sing with the band sometimes when it hit Little Rock. In 1943 Al made the Ellington band, but "I was in the band for two weeks before...
When American musicians fly to Europe, they usually touch down in Ireland as many tourists do, take on a few drams of Paddy's at Shannon and travel on. But when the Boston Symphony set up its five-week tour, it scheduled its first foreign concert in Cork (pop...