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...face is familiar, but the melody -well, it just isn't right. Up on the stage of Los Angeles' the Now (formerly Cocoanut Grove), a nightclub thick with the ghosts of potted palms and a thousand big-name bands, Diana Ross makes her electric entrance, shimmering like a Broadway sign. She sports a frizzy Afro wig about the size of a boxwood hedge and a sequined sarong that looks as if it were cut from the Orion constellation. That's not the only star trip this lady is on. She seizes the microphone and leans into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Baby, Baby, Where Did Diana Go? | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...from Boston. As a division of psychiatry, crisis intervention developed in part from a study in Boston that followed the tragic Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942, in which 492 died. Interested in emotional response to bereavement, a Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Lindemann, questioned relatives of the dead. He found that the human capacity to cope with problems, which is not innate but gained through experience, often falters in a time of crisis, like the sudden loss of a loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Psychiatry's New Approach: Crisis Intervention | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Emerald Isle-sure and it warms the cockles of your heart! A wallop of ice cream, a dollop of fudge sauce, a flurry of mint and cocoanut, a halo of whipped cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: Edibility Gap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy Williams is M.C. of the 25th annual presentation of awards for TV and movie excellence, live from Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove. Jerry Lewis, Carol Channing, Peter Lawford and Jim Brown hand out the statuettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 9, 1968 | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...Tais. In Honolulu, tourists line up for blocks for his three shows a night at Duke Kahanamoku's 700-seat club. On the mainland, he has done sellout business from the Royal Box of Manhattan's Americana Hotel to Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove, where he holds the house record. His fans range from Lyndon Johnson's sister Rebekah Bobbitt, who attended a party welcoming him to New York, to Jacqueline Kennedy, who caught his first show at the Duke's on her visit to Hawaii last year, stayed right through to the 3 a.m. closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: Trader Ho | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

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