Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crooner Johnnie (Cry) Ray arrived in London with a revolutionary approach to his art: "I think that crybaby routine has had its day. I was lucky to get over with it." But Johnnie was not certain that dry eyes would assure success. "I'm saving my money. Maybe next year I'll be through. Who knows?" On his first evening in England, Johnnie dined at the House of Commons with an old friend. Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg, long an admirer of Ray's standard technique...
Frozen Singers. After the big moment on the air. most of the amateur performers fall back into obscurity. But some have gone on to fame & fortune, including Opera Singers Mimi Benzell and Robert Merrill, Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, Dancers Vera-Ellen and Ray Malone, Comedians Jack Carter and Bert Parks, and such singers as Teresa Brewer, the Mariners, Monica Lewis and Frank Sinatra (who appeared on the show in 1935 as one of a quartet called the Hoboken Four...
...After a six-hour hearing, the board dismissed from their jobs: Wicker, 39, secretary of the Baptist Student Union at Duke University; the Rev. J. C. Herrin, 29, Baptist Student Union secretary at the University of North Carolina, and the union's state secretary, the Rev. James W. Ray, 39. Like Wicker, the others had been found too infirm in Baptist fundamentals for the general board...
...Student Union leaders were first put on the carpet last November, because Ray had invited Vanderbilt University's Dr. Nels Ferre, a liberal Christian theologian to give the principal speech at their state convention. General board members' heard that Congregationalist Ferre does not believe in the virgin birth,-and they quickly canceled his appearance. Since then, the board has been digging into charges that the Baptist student pastors have been guiding their young congregations independent of regular church supervision...
...possible starting infield for the Fort Leo game would find sophomores John Maher at first and Art Noyes at second, and seniors Ray Maesaka and Ed Krinsky at third base and shortstop. With Dick Clasby staying home from the trip to rest after a recent illness, George McDonald may start behind the plate...