Word: singer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about finished one opera, is planning another and thinking about new ballet and orchestra pieces. "I don't know where I'm going," he said, "but you know, I'm going like crazy." There was only one complaint among the guests who helped him celebrate. Soul Singer Lou Rawls joshed the President that "the hors d'oeuvres could have at least been fricasseed chitlins on toothpicks." Still, Rawls issued an informal communiqué that summed up the evening. "This," he said, "is a groove." Quoth the Duke: "Lovely...
Divorced. By Cass Elliott, 25, the voluminous crystal-voiced mama of the Mamas and the Papas, now making it on her own: Singer-Songwriter James R. Hendricks, 29; on ground of cruelty (Mama Cass said, "He became more jealous as I became more famous and used to create scenes, throw tantrums and embarrass me in front of my friends"); after 5½ years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...appeal is obviously to the intelligent preteenager interested in natural history. Sam (Teddy Eccles) is a Canadian youth who decides that four walls and two parents are too confining. With his pet raccoon Gus, he runs off to the Laurentian Mountains, befriends a falcon, a librarian and a folk singer (Theodore Bikel). The singer teaches Sam a fundamental truth: no boy is an island, entire of itself-and prepares him for the long hike home...
...other Kennedy, Ethel has always been obsessed with athletics. Even today, a simple game becomes a do-or-die competition. Last summer, nearly six months into her pregnancy, she was bounding around the tennis court at Hyannisport, playing doubles with Mountaineer Jim Whittaker against Columnist Art Buchwald and Singer Andy Williams. Ethel's team lost. Furious with frustration, she knelt on the court and banged her head on the surface. Next morning, in a rematch, she blasted a forehand across the net at Buchwald so hard that it hit him on the cheek before he could even lift his racket...
...first-rate reporting of the violence. It even had kind words for the cops, who "exercised amazing restraint, ignoring the blatant sexual activities, drinking and doping," until, finally, "the youthful vacationers asked for much of the trouble they got." Stone does not condone the kind of activity that got Singer Jim Morrison charged with indecent exposure during a Miami concert, although the paper ran a typically wry headline: MORRISON'S PENIS is INDECENT. The paper startled its readers by attacking the yippies just before the 1968 Democratic Convention for proposing "methods and means as corrupt as the political machine...