Word: wailer
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...criteria? At the Fogg Exhibition, two quite different portraits of Marian Anderson are hug together. The first is a formal portrait by Yousuf Karsh -- the photographer who took that famous picture of Churchill; the other, a portrait by Richard Avedon, shows Miss Anderson as the eternal siren -- the sad wailer with windblown black hair and a dark face...
Size-Four Stompers. Motown Records is currently promoting a nine-year-old wailer named Little Lisa, who, they boast, "will become the next Shirley Temple." Decca Records has a prepubescent dreamboat named Keith Green, 12, who has been signed to a five-year contract. He has already written 50 rock-'n'-roll songs, which he croons in a voice trembling with conviction ("Youuu are the girlll/ I am the boyyy/ Yes, it seems we're in loove...
...keeping with old-line Hollywood etiquette, Gossipist Louella O. Parsons announced formally that the mayor of Palm Desert, Calif, (pop. 3,000), Old Groaner Bing Crosby, 53, and his bride of almost four months, Cinemactress Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant Crosby, 24, are expecting a little wailer in August. Flashed Lolly: "Kathy said that either a girl or a boy would be welcome." The rest of the press caught up with Kathy herself as she filled out an enrollment card at Los Angeles City College, where she will bone up on psychology and sociology while waiting for motherhood...