Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERMAN'S HERMITS ON TOUR (M-G-M). "The worst singer in the world can sing our songs," says Herman, cheerfully explaining away such hits as the million-selling Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. The second collection of what Herman correctly calls "the simplest music there is" includes his teen love ditties, Silhouettes and Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, as well as I'm Henry VIII, I Am ("I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before...
...teaching English in a junior high school in New Rochelle, 17 miles north of New York City. She sold a few verses to The New Yorker, then got a plaintive note from Fiction Editor Katherine White: "Dear Miss McGinley: We are buying your poem, but why do you sing the same sad songs all lady poets sing?" Phyllis took the hint, began turning out light and amusing verse...
...coach Samantha, Wyler called in Character Actress Kathleen Freeman, who not only forced Samantha to struggle with the role, but hyped it up further with horror stories about a paranoid schizophrenic relative until Samantha was thoroughly psyched and having nightmares. The turning point came when Samantha was watching Stamp sing a merry-mad cockney song and, as she watched, a tear came slowly down her cheek. "We were both elated," Coach Freeman recalls. "That was what we both needed. She knew she was at last involved with the part...
...years at Sing Sing Prison, New York State's 2,000-volt electric chair has efficiently ended 614 lives. Last month opponents of capital punishment persuaded the state legislature to pass a bill abolishing execution for all but two classes of murderers-cop killers and life prisoners who kill guards or inmates while in jail or while trying to escape. Governor Nelson Rockefeller sharply criticized those exceptions as morally indefensible. "If the proponents admit that the death penalty is a deterrent in some cases," he asked, "then why not in others...
Last week Rockefeller, who had been expected to veto the bill, joined a worldwide trend (TIME, April 2) by signing it into law with no further comment. At the same time, he planned to commute to life imprisonment the sentences of 17 of the 20 men now on Sing Sing's death row (three are convicted police killers). The death penalty already has been abolished in whole or in part in twelve other states-Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon, Rho.de Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia. With the addition of New York, abolitionists have won over...