Word: singers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of yearning to shoot straight in a horse opera, Singer-Actor Sammy Davis Jr. got his wish, was exuberant after filming an all-Negro oater for CBS-TV's Zane Grey Theater. Wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Sammy had been pessimistic about the prospects of ever persuading a producer to dramatize any epic pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned...
...four mass rallies: an opening ceremony and parade in the Weiner Sports Stadium; an anti-colonialism meeting which was largely unsuccessful because of a poor choice of location and impending rain; an expertly handled parade on Vienna's Ring ending in a "solidarity" rally in a public park, featuring singer Paul Robeson; and the closing ceremony by the Vienna Rathaus, which was basically an international talent show...
Another Alumnus. Angola Prison remains Oster's favorite folk source, and Robert Pete Williams, 42, his favorite singer. A lifer for shooting and killing a man, Williams has, in Oster's view, the "tremendous drive and anguish" that characterized the fabled Lead Belly, another Angola alumnus. Williams recently improvised his own prisoner's blues...
When I'm Thinking of You (Tommy Sands; Capitol LP). In his salad days, Singer Sands honked and rocked his way to sudden fortune with a voice like a jackdaw's cry. Now at the awkward age-22 -he has renounced rock 'n' roll for balladeering on the theory that "I have matured as a person." His latest album fails to prove that point, but at least it demonstrates that behind the old postnasal drip, a sweetly lyric set of pipes was growing all the time...
...Welcome Back." What will the new compacts do to those gnatty foreign bugs, which started the rush to smallness? "We never worry about competition," says Britain's Lord Rootes, whose Rootes Motors Ltd. makes Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam. "We welcome our American competitors back after the years in which they designed themselves out of the market...