Word: songfest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular maypole frolic in Peking when Stephen Tyler and 14 other U.S. innocents abroad-part of the 45 students who thumbed their passports at the State Department and AWOLed off to Red China last summer-got together with that jolly old minstrel, Premier Chou Enlai, for a clap-hands songfest. But as the Trans-Siberian Express chugged back to Moscow last week, the party line began to fray. Complained self-described "Rightist" Tyler at the U.S. embassy: because he had tried to dampen their enthusiasm for Red China, two of his fellow travelers-for-the-truth had bopped...
...says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach a dog to do by smearing meat on the actors." But when Patti lent her big, plain voice to the color-drenched proceedings, she was as pretty and wholesome as a milkmaid. The new George Gobel-Eddie Fisher songfest was not exactly the "wonderful show" Eddie called it, but shy, impish Lonesome George again proved himself the master of the minor key-even when delivering a monologue plugging NBC color. Of all the new musicals, the best was the simplest: The Lux Show (replacing the old Lux Theater), with...
...eleventh successive year, Old Boy Winston Churchill traveled down to Harrow's annual songfest, requested John Peel, Hearts of Oak and a tune called The Island, which he had sung as a student almost 60 years...
Local larynxes will bob to the strains of the University Band as Radcliffe's fourth annual songfest is launched at 8:30 p.m. tonight on the steps of Cabot Hall...