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...statement that she had changed her mind and would be absent since she felt her appearance would be "an unnecessary distraction." Another Jackson fixture - longtime friend Dame Elizabeth Taylor - took to her Twitter page on Monday to announce a similar sentiment. "I cannot be part of the public whoopla," Taylor said. "I just don't believe Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others. How I feel is between us. Not a public event." On Monday night, Jackson family members, including his sister Janet, and close friends like longtime hairstylist Karen Faye attended a private viewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A. Gears Up for Star-Studded Michael Jackson Memorial | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...intensive attention to detail has taken up most of the time of Reunion cochairman Charles Draper for the past year. In addition, an inversely mushrooming staff of close to 300 grads and hired help worked to make sure every member of the class would attend and enjoy the whoopla...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Week's Whoopee Took Almost Two Years of Preparation, Planning | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

...this whoopla was nothing new to George and Sam Friedland, the hard-selling brothers who run Food Fair Stores. They have pyramided a single small butcher shop into a chain of 131 big stores, the seventh biggest food chain in the U.S. Moreover, they have made it unique as the only major chain which consists of nothing but supermarkets. It is so efficient that it can usually meet the prices of such giants as A & P and Safeway, yet nets more out of every sales dollar (2.30?) than any other chain in the big eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Supermerchants | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...face, the Seguidilla from Carmen flat on her back. In The Girl of the Golden West she rode a bronco on stage, and as Thai's she once celebrated her conversion to Christianity with a record high-jump that landed her in the hospital. All this musical whoopla endeared Jeritza to her public, if not to her fellow artists. Snorted Soprano Lilli Lehmann: "If you're a real artist you don't have to lie down on your face to sing a big aria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Same Old Magic | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

There was a whoopla in Toronto last week that should soon spread all over Canada. The Canadian Army unloosed a high-spirited, always likable, often lavish soldier show. The Yank's This Is The Army had given it a model to learn from and then disregard. Two Toronto sergeants, 26-year-old Frank Shuster and 24-year-old Johnny Wayne, had authored a peppy book, some perky tunes and lyrics. Canada's Jack Arthur, Broadway's Romney Brent and Hollywood's Aida Broadbent had punched the show into shape. And civilian donations had decked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Canadian Capers | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

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