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Within the four boards, each member can find more specialized satisfactions. The news boards thrives on the variety in their work and on the uncertainty of what the next assignment will be, CRIMSON interviewers have probed the secrets of Harry S. Truman, Eartha Kitt, and Wondell H. Furry with studied impartiality. A week's work might find a CRIMSON reporter in a Court room, at a soccer game, or at the scene of an accident...
...cascade ranged in mood from Silent Night itself and a musical rendering of the Lord's Prayer to a husky-voiced double-entendre by Eartha Kitt entitled Santa Baby, and something called Cool Yule, sung and trumpeted by Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. But inevitably, after the runaway success of last year's I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (TIME, Dec. 15), the best brains in the pop music business have been boiling overtime to find another small-fry special...
...Angeles officials and Hollywood celebrities turned out for a banquet honoring Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika. Among the entertainers was talented, sexy Eartha Kitt, who sang songs such as Santa Baby and I Want to Be Evil. Next day, some of Los Angeles' councilmen were shocked. Said one: "It was low-level entertainment, repugnant to all decent citizens." Eartha's songs, according to Mayor Morris Poulson, were "filthy, risque and off-color." Eartha herself pleaded not guilty. Said she: "I can't understand it. I didn't think it was possible to shock...
...Eartha Kitt (Victor LP). Eight songs of nostalgia, avarice and calculated mischief, with polylingual Songstress Kitt sounding equally enticing in English, Swahili, French and Turkish...
...noisy in the hall and all the New Faces are passing up and down. You hope you didn't leave too suddenly. Outside the stage door there is man asking the stage door man to get him some autographs. He names some he wants. "Don't you want Eartha Kitt's?" the stage door man asks. "Does she give autographs?" the man says, and you put the paper you have been writing on in your pocket and go toward the subway...