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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name in the world of show business-a practice that Rudolf Bing later frowned upon. He became one of the first U.S. opera singers to make a movie, The Rogue Song, followed it up with a string of schmalzy operettas: New Moon, Cuban Love Song, Under Your Spell...
...lifelong Baptist, Taft started on the Herald as a copy boy in 1949, served as polo editor for a spell, and worked several other mundane beats before getting his present assignment seven years ago. Most newsmen consigned to the church department have a tendency to groan. Taft accepted his new post as a serious challenge and a solemn responsibility...
...Khrushchev needs a breathing spell at home. If he publicly changes his policy of "coexistence," criticized by Peking, East Germany and domestic hardliners, it will be a signal that he is finished...
Middle C Sir: Although you were careful enough to twice include in your article the middle name of the Philadelphia Orchestra's retiring flutist, William Morris Kincaid [June 6], you weren't careful enough to correctly spell his last name. It's Kincaid, not Kinkaid. I should know. I was a Kincaid pupil for five years...
...week's end, as they nursed their power mowers down the lawn, Suburbia's men paused here and there to enjoy a spell of nothing more salacious than wife-watching. Tanned, brief-clad women sprawled in their chaises and chatted about babies, Khrushchev, Japan and the P.T.A. In the patios, the amateur chefs prepared juicy sacrifices on the suburban Buddhas -the charcoal grills. Mint-flavored iced tea or tart martinis chilled thirsty throats, and from across hedgerows and fences came the cries of exultant youngsters and the yells and laughter of men and women engaged in a rough...