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DIED. BILLY DAVIS, 72, singer-songwriter turned advertising executive best known for writing the '70s corporate anthem I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke; after a long illness; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Under the name Tyran Carlo, the Detroit native wrote R&B hits for Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, James Brown and the Supremes during the 1950s and '60s. In 1968 he moved to New York City to join the McCann Erickson ad agency, where he came up with the 1971 Coke theme song, which was later turned into the pop hit I'd Like to Teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 20, 2004 | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...live in exile, fearing persecution after her book was published. DIED. BILLY DAVIS, 72, singer-songwriter turned advertising executive best known for writing the '70s corporate anthem I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke; after a long illness; in New Rochelle, New York. Under the name Tyran Carlo, the Detroit native wrote R&B hits for Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and James Brown in the 1950s and '60s. In 1968 he moved to New York City to join the McCann Erickson ad agency, where he came up with the 1971 Coke theme song, which later became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/12/2004 | See Source »

...belle anguille, avec un sens si exact de la modulation scenique. Il faut signaler aussi Marcelle Ranson si accomplie dans le role d'Albine, et Claude Martin (Burrhus), qui d'une maniere brusque mais touchante prononce le jugement definitif sur Neron: "Ses yeux indifferents ont deja la constance/D'un tyran dans le crime endurci des l'enfance...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Britannicus | 12/10/1958 | See Source »

...Port au Prince 10,000 citizens of the hemisphere's only black republic waved palm fronds, danced the meringue to the beat of native drums, and shouted "Down with Lescot-le tyran!" After four days of paralyzing strikes, and fighting in which at least 14 had been killed, the Army had gone over to the revolution and Haiti had a new Government. On the hill overlooking the sail-flecked harbor, the handsome residence of President Elie Lescot lay empty. The President had fled the country. (Early this week he deplaned in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Exit Lescot | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...their city government. And let country men let city men gov ern themselves their own way. While city and country reformers quarrel over moral and religious issues especially in the South, in dustrialists are quietly entrenching themselves "behind strong federal breastworks" of which the result will be "the inevitable tyran nies and incompetence of Federal bureaucracies." Let the South strengthen its state governments to keep pace with its industrial development. - Governor Albert G. Ritchie of Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Charlottesville | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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