Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blue Moon (Duke Ellington & His Quintet; Capitol). The Duke tries a small combo for this fevered version. Jimmie Grissom sobs out the vocal...
Kimi is so popular with its fans that thousands of infants are being named Machiko and Haruki. An estimated two of every five Japanese girls wear turbans of white wool, just as Machiko does. The book version of Kimi has sold more than 500,000 copies. The movie made a record postwar profit of almost $700,000, and three top studios are battling for the rights to a sequel...
Themselves dealing with a patchwork of old legends, Latouche and Moross have yet contrived something attractively individual. The Golden Apple is much less satire meant to strike home than a front-porch-and-parlor version of Homer. The local Venus wins the golden apple in a pie-baking contest. The face that launched a thousand ships now sets perhaps a thousand tongues awagging. Scylla and Charybdis are a slick pair of brokers. The famed vanished song the sirens sang turns out to have...
Died. John Lloyd Balderston, 64, foreign correspondent turned playwright, best known in the U.S. for his 1929 Broadway hit, Berkeley Square, and its movie version (1933), both starring the late Leslie Howard; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
Thomas M. Stout '57, who was hospitalized for more than a week with facial injuries received in the March 9 explosion, is presently recovering at his home in Worcester. The Dean's Office will take no disciplinary action on his case until he returns to Cambridge and tells his version of the incident to Dean von Stade, a University official said last night...