Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed to discover, upon reading your spread on Flower Drum Song, that in those many thousands of words devoted to the evolution of this Broadway success no mention was made of Mr. C. Y. Lee, the author of the book upon which the show was based...
...occurs to me that work at TIME is not too different from ours at the St. James; they both require externals, techniques and, above all, the same passionate interest in the matter at hand. Your Flower Drum Song issue has all of these. The story has such accuracy, good writing and warmth that even those of us closely connected with the enter prise and terribly jealous of everything concerning it are delighted with the way it has made us look...
...Drum Song. In Port Washington, Wis., W. F. Walford, filing a $600 claim against Ozaukee County, said that he had to buy a hearing aid after a highway cop pulled alongside and deafened him with a siren...
...Paramount) an amatory yawp of pain entitled So It's Goodbye, saw it become a favorite of the jukebox set. A carrot-haired New Jersey girl named Beverly Ross, 22, deserted the chicken farm where she grew up, traveled to Manhattan, made a hit record with her own song called Lollipop. Later, she moved Columbia's Mitch Miller to frenzies of promotional enthusiasm with two more of her darkling juvenile fancies-Headlights and Stop Laughing at Me ("I will always have that memor-ee"). Most promising of the fledgling singer-composers is a 19-year-old Juilliard piano...
Harvard's religious revival is climaxed by a visit from Billy Graham and a band of the faithful. An overflow audience in Sanders Theatre responds jubilantly to the message. Three hundred undergraduates, including the entire cast of Drumbeats and Song, which was caught during rehearsal, are converted. Paul Tillich stalks out of the meeting, saying that he is not grasped by ultimate concern. No one is quite sure of what he meant to say. Nathan P. sends the money back to the Times, commenting that he is sure there must have been a mistake...