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...hero-worship and product-hunger had not only done so with Howdy-Doody to left of him and Kukla, Fran & Ollie to right of him, but with little of the background which might be deemed necessary for hog-tying a whole generation. He shudders at western music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop (last week's: 34.8) than climb aboard a rodeo bronc...
...lobbies of the Metropolitan Opera House one night last week, a sign announcing a cast-substitution went up. Met-goers took it in automatically, passed on to their seats. Few of them had ever heard of substitute Soprano Roberta Peters, and for good reason: she had never sung in public before...
...Whiffenpoofs, Yale's most famous if not best singing group, harmonizes every Monday evening. Some of their songs were first sung in the Wooetes Street alehouse...
...suggest through the columns of the CRIMSON that some students appear to need training concerning their attitude towards the playing and singing of "Fair Harvard" at football games. It is a tradition and custom among Harvard alumni, at all gatherings where "Fair Harvard" is played and sung, to stand in their "tracks," heads uncovered, and to remain so until the end of the first stanza of this much revered Harvard song. At present it appears to be the signal, among too many students, for a stampede from their seats--much to the regret and disappointment of many Harvard graduates. Francis...
...this time the Club threw aside the pleasant but essentially conventional and commonplace music which college glee clubs have always sung, divorced itself from the banjo and mandolin clubs of the College, and undertook the experiment of singing first-rate music, classical and modern. With Dr. Davison presentation of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, world premiere the Club suddenly came into prominence as one of America's outstanding men's choruses...