Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working-class girl, I don't spare the effort, and I know I have the ability to make people enjoy themselves." She has just completed her first album, Queen of the Night, masterminded by Atlantic's ace producer Jerry Wexler, and she climaxes her first smash U.S. solo tour with a June 13 Madison Square Garden concert...
...MORNING AFTER National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University, several hundred students at Forest Hills High Schools in New York City walked out of school. As the angry students milled about the building--liberals' "Don't forget Kent State" mingling with radicals' "Organize to smash the state"--the school's principal noticed that someone had dropped a briefcase on the floor. "Get hat briefcase out of here," he snapped. "What will people think...
Died. Eleanor Tennant, 79, first U.S. woman tennis pro, who taught the game to stars of the court and the Hollywood screen; in La Jolla, Calif. Lean and leathery, Tennant changed women's tennis from a defensive base-line game into an aggressive, serve-and-smash attack. Third-ranked U.S. woman player in 1920, she soon started coaching and made Wimbledon champions of Alice Marble, Maureen Connolly and Bobby Riggs. "Teach," as she was nicknamed by one of her finest show-biz pupils, Carole Lombard, was also courtside mentor of Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich and Groucho Marx...
...those of us who want to stay would have no problem staying. But meanwhile we have to fight for survival. If you listened to the WHRB broadcast you could hear that while the police were breaking down the doors of University Hall the students on the inside were chanting "Smash ROTC! No Expansion!" More and more of the rest of Mission Hill means it now too, Harvard: No Expansion. As Woody Guthrie sang, "It isn't the outlaws that drive the people from their homes." Jeanie Neville Mission Hill Resident
...noting has been produced under any auspices except Hollywood's?" There was no answer. There never has been. American movies learned to sing at the same moment they learned to talk: the first sound movie, The Jazz Singer, in 1927 starring Al Jolson, was a musical and a smash...