Word: done
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lomax returned to lead the audience in Almost Done, a song he collected years ago from penitentiaries, when the wardens permitted him to visit with the prisoners and swap songs and stories. Terry and McGee rocked through I Don't Want No Cornbread and Molasses, straight out of a southern jail, and marched out with When the Saints Go Marching...
When the grand jury subpoenaed Kirsten Falke to testify, Producer Felsher urged her to lie. Felsher, who was fired by NBC only last week, told the Congressmen that he urged about 30 former contestants to lie to the grand jury, as he himself had done, naturally under oath (later Felsher returned to the grand jury, told the truth). How many of the nighttime programs of Tic Tac Dough were rigged? Answered Felsher: about 75%-and he had a simple explanation: "I was trying to put together an exciting show, and I never did feel that there was anything terribly wrong...
...week limited engagement of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar had been sold out overnight. Based on the series of "wicked, wicked letters" that George Bernard Shaw exchanged over the years with Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell, the play crackled with the thrust and parry of Shavian wit neatly done in German. But for once G.B.S. himself was being upstaged by an even more powerful drawing card: famed Viennese Actress Elisabeth Bergner, 59, emerging from semiretirement to score the triumph of her career...
Bishop John P. Cody (Class of '32) of Kansas City spoke for all the North American College's old grads this weekend when he said: "This institution is ageless. We who have studied here give thanks to Almighty God for the good the college has done. And we are confident the future will be even more glorious...
...room). From there, using $57 of his own money, he bought a round-trip air ticket to Hilton's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, in three days proceeded to charge nearly $300 in hotel, restaurant and car rental bills. As a parting gift for a blonde who had done the town with him, he presented her with a $675 mink stole - using the card, of course...