Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Refrain. Humphrey, on the other hand, all but ignored Miller, concentrated his attack on Barry Goldwater. A good man with a gimmick, Humphrey continued to rival Mitch Miller in his ability to get audiences to sing along with his already familiar Atlantic City refrain: "But not Senator Goldwater...
Passing the Hat. Nonetheless, not all critics think the change is for the good. "Which is preferable," asks a German travel agent, "the grotesque, quasi-colonialist old-style tourists, or the traveling beatniks, who bum their way from city to city, sing folk songs and pass the hat in real and phony artists' dives, and accept any job that will subsidize their tours?" Any Parisian who caught the act along the Rue Scribe this summer would be hard put to make the choice. Daily, the area around American Express headquarters swarmed with disheveled U.S. youths who were so desperate...
...Sing Along with U Thant. In the capital, where a woman of such exalted station rarely escapes the scratch of a well-aimed shiv, Lady Bird has come off remarkably unscathed. Some people wonder if she is a sort of self-created Galatea, playing the role of a politician's perfect wife, the possessor of a flawless mediocrity that generates warm admiration but no scorching envy. Brother Tony says that "Lady Bird has been in public life and in the public eye for so long that she has learned to be circumspect, even when...
...folk music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant with a lusty audience sing-along of Puff, the Magic Dragon...
Married. Philip Crosby, 30, one of the four Let's-Sing-Like-Bing brothers; and Mary Joyce Gabbard, 24, California airline stewardess; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...