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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After countless TV appearances. Diahann landed the role of Clara in Sam Goldwyn's gilded production of Porgy, was horrified when Musical Director Andre Previn permitted her only to mouth the lyrics to Summertime, dubbed in the voice of French-English Songstress Loulie Jean Norman. Explains Previn: "Diahann'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Bottom of the Top | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

When Staudacher found that he was still alive and unhurt, he climbed lightly out of the cockpit. The sight was nearly too much for old friend and fellow speed-man, Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader, onetime hydroplane driver and half owner of Tempo-Alcoa. "I expected to see crumpled metal and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flight over Pelican Point | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

As befits an evening of fun, Fiorello! portrays a crusader without ever adopting the tone of a crusade. While pumping lead into ward politics and taking potshots at the Tammany wigwam, it pokes the right touch of fun at Fiorello's own brandished tomahawk. Winningly played by Tom Bosley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

A Loss of Roses finds Playwright William (Picnic) Inge once again in the Middle West of a generation ago, portraying troubled, torn, anonymous lives. This time, he considers the jangled relationship between a widow (Betty Field) and her 21-year-old son (Warren Beatty), and what happens when an out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

The play seems a little lonely, a little too distant from its materials, a little too given to mood. Music does service for speech; the Inge touches, the Inge faces, even where effective, seem overfamiliar. Perhaps the play's too plangent and elegiac title helps express what is unsatisfying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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