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Soprano Marsh was scheduled to sing again, but she developed tonsillitis. When the malady lingered on, a hasty call went out to Veronica Tyler. Arriving from New York a bare hour ahead of time with her yellow gown over her arm, Tyler swept onstage with complete aplomb and velvet voice to repeat two of the arias she had sung in her previous appearance with the orchestra. "These young singers and musicians are great-no pretensions, natural, enthusiastic, no pettiness," marveled Orchestra Manager Thomas Perry. Shrugged Baltimore-born Tyler: "I've learned to relax, and I love to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Testing Their Medals | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...Luci's Secret Service code name is Venus, Lynda's Velvet, and Lady Bird's Victoria, then what does that make L.B.J.? Vicissitudinous? Your cover story on Luci and Pat was enjoyable and the cover itself was beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...striking blue. Endowed as well with lustrous black hair, flashing smile and a milkmaid's complexion, Luci is undeniably comely-more so than most of her photographs indicate. Not entirely by accident, the Secret Service code name for her is Venus; Lynda, more studious and serious, is Velvet; Lady Bird is Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...guerrilla leader became his country's most decorated World War II hero, intends to make it smaller yet. He has seeded the troubled area with loyal officials who fought with him against the Japanese, and has devised his own pacification program, a mailed-fist and velvet-glove approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Hunt for the Huks | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...played Liz Taylor's older sister in National Velvet, Hurd Hatfield's girl friend in Picture of Dorian Gray, Charles Boyer's maid in Gaslight, the wayward Queen in The Three Musketeers, the Other Woman in State of the Union, Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii, Warren Beatty's mother in All Fall Down, and Laurence Harvey's mother in Manchurian Candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Dame in Mame | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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