Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crosby's acquittal tasted particularly sweet to the Journal, since it had broken out 180-point type earlier this month to banner the acquittal on perjury charges of Mayor Terry Schrunk (TIME, July 8), another key figure named by Elkins. "The vaunted truthfulness of Elkins," crowed the Journfal, "was quickly exposed as an unadulterated myth." When the Journal pressed its advantage by urging dismissal of the ten other charges facing Schrunk and Crosby last week, the Oregonian countered with an editorial criticizing the "weakness of the prosecution." Both papery nonetheless gave the trials top news play. And if Oregonians...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...mother the choir director. He was pounding out Yes, We Have No Bananas on the piano at the age of five, and at 15 he had his own band. It was a nightclub drunk who launched his singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless in Hollywood during the war, he put words and music to a parable he once heard in his father's church. The song: Straighten Up and Fly Right. Though he sold it outright for $50, it led to his first Capitol Records disk and helped make...
...opposition, $64,000 Question, Cole says obliquely: "I figure somebody would like to see entertainment once in a while." Last week, with assists from skilled Arranger Nelson Riddle and Guest Frankie Laine, but mostly by just curling his voice around such tunes as Stay As Sweet As You Are and Shadow Waltz, Cole showed how entertaining a half-hour can be. But it is also serious business. "You know," he says, "if this show is successful, the other networks might even try to counterattack by putting other Negroes on opposite me. That's O.K. with me. Come to think...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...