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...have also been snipped a bit. But even the latest reductions-at CBS and ABC -were what one ABC spokesman called a "pruning" involving faceless people, like secretaries or technicians. The next likely cutback will affect the viewers directly: it could involve old family friends like Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk and the Beverly Hillbillies...
...America" on Labor Day and Memorial Day, along with skydivers and skywriters to attract the press; VISTA swizzle sticks aboard airliners; a pavilion at Disneyland; and a national advisory board made up of such figures as Paul Newman, Elliott Gould, O.J. Simpson, Billy Graham, Mae West and Lawrence Welk...
...more high energy our music got, the more the establishment tried to kill it; They sent out Frankie Avalon and Fablan, exemplars of honkey culture. Lawrence Welk. Or listen, now to top-40 radio: the same awful shit; songs of boys driving around in cars trying to pick up girls, or vice versa. Most pop music is still low energy music...
SPRING has come, and with it, Boston's vernal rite of music. Each evening from April through June, the marble pilasters of Symphony Hall are transformed into the foundations of a plastic Lawrence Welk wonderland by the magic baton of Arthur Fiedler, as thousands of faithful look...
...Gargaliani. Agnew's father emigrated from there to America 72 years ago, changing his name from Anagnostopoulos and becoming a U.S. citizen. As a first-generation native American, Spiro never spoke his father's native tongue (his mother was American) and is more attuned to Lawrence Welk than to the bouzouki. But in Gargaliani, blood, not tongue, is what matters: the Vice President is revered as a local boy who made good. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela visited Gargaliani and filed this report...