Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sounds. Some of Peggy's old fans, accustomed to a soft voice and easy rhythms from her, were not pleased. They thought they detected traces of the Johnnie Ray wail. They were bothered by the sound of Peggy's gentle voice struggling against a clattering rhythm section, galloping violins, and something that roared like the M-G-M lion. The overall effect was a little like an echoing nightmare in a subway express. But it didn't bother the fans of "the new sound" (TIME, Oct. 29): they were buying the platter faster than any Decca record...
...allotted to home and foreign missions in 1953. ¶ Voted to end the rule requiring a one-year waiting period before a divorced person may remarry, but bade pastors assure themselves of the person's "penitence for past sin and failure." ¶ Heard Retiring Moderator Harrison Ray Anderson report that Presbyterian membership is up 25% since 1945, enrollment in Presbyterian seminaries up 220% (to 1,450) since...
...midnight when the Ray Munsells' family car, heading from Amorita, Okla. for the hospital at Hardtner, Kans., crossed the state line. In the back seat, Mrs. Ray Munsell Jr., 21, braced herself against sharpening labor pains, and reached out now & then to steady her three-year-old daughter Roberta, who was dozing beside her in a blanket...
Nearing Kiowa the car went out of control, crashed through the guard rail of a bridge over the Medicine Lodge River, and landed upside down in the water. Neither the driver, Ray Munsell Sr. (who apparently had had a heart attack), nor his wife survived; their daughter-in-law was knocked unconscious...
Married. Johnnie Ray, 25, sobbing composer-crooner (The Little White Cloud that Cried); and Marilyn Morrison, 22, brunette daughter of a Hollywood nightclub owner; in Manhattan. Most of the wedding party shed a few tears, but the groom was all smiles until he broke down to sing a chorus of Cry for a teen-age delegate from a Brooklyn fan club...