Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Majestic as a ship of the line, Dramatic Soprano Eileen Parrel I, 47, cruised through an aria from La Gioconda as she neared the end of a concert at Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium. Suddenly the mighty voice quit cold. "You wouldn't believe it, but I've forgotten it," blurted Eileen to the audience. By the time the laughter died, her memory had recharged itself, and she finished the aria to a cataract of applause. Later, she bemusedly recalled the contretemps that had built up to her monumental blank. "The programs were printed incorrectly. The weather...
Grass-Roots Crusade. Having heard enough, McLendon directed all his radio stations (from Philadelphia to San Francisco) to quit playing songs that "offend public morals, dignity or taste." And just to make sure that certain kinds of recorded numbers would not get past his disk jockeys, McLendon announced that henceforth his stations would refuse any new record release "unless it is accompanied by a valid lyric sheet...
...Trust? The quiz part of the program was downplayed just as in Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, and Johnny proved himself so droll at japing with his outlandish guests that he was soon pinch-hitting for Jack Paar on Tonight. When "King" Jack decided to quit, he anointed Carson as "the one man who could or should replace...
Died. La Verne Andrews, 51, eldest of the singing Andrews Sisters, who quit school in 1932 at age 17 with sisters Maxine, then 14, and Patti, 12, to play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Scandinavian negotiator, persuaded Roth and the Common Market's Rey to lunch with him at the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel. Over filet mignon de veau and a bottle of 1962 Chāteau Capbern St. Estéphe, tempers cooled. Roth promised to stay in Geneva; Rey agreed to quit stalling and wind up the negotiations promptly...