Word: whoopdedoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...