Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the band struck up the jazz classic Muskrat Ramble over Los Angeles' KTTV, Lyricist Ray Gilbert winced to hear his own words replaced by others: "You're gonna love this coffee, man oh man ..." Last week Gilbert sued for $300,000 from the sponsor (Hills Brothers Coffee), the ad agency (N. W. Ayer), and his own music publisher (George Simon), who explained that he had sold the singing-commercial rights to the music -minus the lyrics-for $500. Gilbert charged that the jingle had injured his reputation "by reducing him in the eyes of the music profession...
Beaver's Bite. The British critics' chief target is the Independent Television Authority's commercial Channel 9, which is so U.S.-infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday's feature program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble...
...Ray Robinson knocked out champion Gene Fullmer with a left hook to the jaw in 1:27 of the fifth round to become the first man ever to win the world middleweight title four times...
...Heckscher's opponent Ray Newsome twisted his ankle during the match, and after twenty minutes of ankle-taping, was unable to keep up with Heckscher in the final set, losing...
...Director Anthony Mann nd his camera tell a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity .hat makes every theater seat feel like a oxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME. April...