Word: whoopdedoo
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...Whoopdedoo. Today, the company is bristling with energy. The Women's. Board, for example, raises about $50,000 a year from its social events, while other committees stage such a fund-raising whoopdedoo as the Fiestas al Tiros, pigeon shoots for the ladies run by a trio of wealthy socialites known as "the pigeon girls." What Kelly is shooting for is a new opera house. Because of the cramped backstage conditions of the music hall, he has to store his scenery in a tent pitched outside the auditorium, holds rehearsals in churches, hotel ballrooms and warehouses scattered all over...
After five hours of uninterrupted whoopdedoo, Bandleader Lee Evans pointedly played The Party's Over-over and over. After five reruns he switched to Hello, Dolly!, Lyndon's campaign theme. That was a mistake. Johnson jumped up for a quick twirl around the floor-and then seven more. What could Evans do? In desperation, the band plunged Deep in the Heart of Texas. The crowd clapped for more. Finally, at 3 a.m., Evans struck up Good Night Ladies, and with its dying strains Lyndon Johnson reluctantly left the floor. Next year he can expect King Frederik...
Last year this casbah of culture and whoopdedoo earned more than $3,000,000 for its investors, and property values have tripled over the last four years. A Gaslight Square Association has been set up, and Jay Landesman has been voted unofficial mayor of the quarter. Says Landesman grandly: "It means nothing. I'd rather be king...
Since he believes that musicians develop sharp business brains through constant bargaining with orchestra leaders, managers, recording companies, etc., Lieberson has put musicians in charge of his chief divisions. He hired Mitch Miller to run the popular-record division "despite the whoopdedoo because he was an oboe player and wore a beard." He gets along famously with artists ("I like creative people"), has lured many of them to Columbia, partly because, as Richard Rodgers says, "Goddard and his people make you feel a little more appreciated." Lieberson has a good ear for trends-though he can sometimes prove hard...
...northern NATOland. Globetrotting Bachelor Green also swapped wired congratulations with a younger whippersnapper from Arizona who turned 80 the same day: Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, who has served longer than anyone else in Congress (he entered the House in 1912 as a youngster of 34). At a birthday whoopdedoo in Phoenix, Hayden was overwhelmed with laudatory scrolls bearing some 174,000 signatures of Arizonans, Dwight D. Eisenhower, most of the U.S. Senate and U.S. Cabinet members. With the Senator was his kid sister, "Miss Sally," 77. Staring out mistily over his birthday cake, Hayden made a ten-minute speech praising...