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Wispy & Whispery. All the hustle and hubbub was about an LP platter called The First Family, starring a young (26) comic named Vaughn Meader, who does a frequently riotous impersonation of Jack Kennedy. Meader's intonation, rhythm and broad Bostonian accent are good enough to fool any Jacqueline. The series of skits that comprise the record also include a wonderfully wispy, whispery impersonation of Jackie herself, played by Naomi Brossart. Most of it is not wit but gags, and the gags are not all top-drawer, though they are greeted as such by one of those irritating studio audiences...
...private Tiffany's, Zsa Zsa Gabor salvaged little more than sketches of two former husbands and some love letters ("They were hotter than the fire"). Like everything else in Southern California, reactions to the high-caste holocaust constituted a weird and wonderful display of human idiosyncrasies. Bandleader Billy Vaughn was among the 150 fire fighters injured (none of them seriously). Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby came home to find the roof of his much-publicized $30 fallout shelter reduced to coals, stubbornly insisted: "I have more faith than ever in the shelter." Kim Novak, artfully decked out in slacks...
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...last long, and by 1926 it was singing to a half-empty Symphony Hall. But it was still contributing just as much to the revival of choral singing, setting an example to the many college Glee Clubs that discarded their mandolins and took up Palestrina, Bach and Vaughn Williams...
...What happened in Cuba points up the necessity for a strong, healthy domestic production," said President Harry T. Vaughn* of Florida's biggest producer, United States Sugar Corp. The corporation is going to more than double its cane plantings in the next two years, to 65,000 acres, and put $20 million into a new mill and refinery. Within a few years, Florida's raw cane production is expected to be five times the 175,000 tons it is today. So confident are Florida producers, says Vaughn, that even though they could not meet their last year...