Word: whiffenpoofs
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...ironic song about a left-behind lover ("Countin' flowers on the wall,/ That don't bother me at all") was taken immediately into the repertory of the rock-'n'-roll set, but most of the other songs in this album (This Ole House, The Whiffenpoof Song) will appeal to other audiences. The four Statler Brothers, who began by singing Gospel at tent meetings in the South, specialize in country music...
...unmoved. On the other hand, the soft, sweet rhythms of Stardust, Deep Purple or Abide With Me gave Morton frightening seizures. He would stare vacantly, twitch, turn his head to the left, make smacking sounds with his lips, utter growling noises and sometimes slump to the floor. The Whiffenpoof Song and Indian Love Call were bad, but not quite so disturbing...
...Whiffenpoof & Hair Spray. The guests began arriving at 10 p.m.: Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill (son of the Duke of Marlborough) of England, the Winston Guests of New York, the Gary Coopers of California, the Nicholas du Fonts of Delaware, General Motors' President John F. Gordon, Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester ("Tex") Colbert, as well as the bejeweled cream of Boston, Philadelphia and Palm Beach society. They promenaded-past 35 car parkers, 16 security men and a formally attired plumber and electrician-through the heavily screened men's locker room into the reception room, where 18-year...
...early-day rock-'n'-roll tune that would have made his grandfather wince), got Meyer Davis to play that as well as his other favorites (It's Only a Paper Moon, Pennies from Heaven}, joined in the singing of the Whiffenpoof Song. Surprise Guest Nat "King" Cole sang a few numbers. A hairdresser flitted around spraying hairdressing on falling female locks. General Motors' retired Board Chairman Albert Bradley gazed at the sumptuous decor (2,000,000 real magnolia leaves, real 18th century tapestries), said with a grin: "Maybe I'll take all these decorations...
...California exile, Jimmy measures out his woebegone life in thermos jugfuls of martinis. His chief drinking pals are Fellow Easterners Claire and Blazer Gates, a couple long on charm and short on character. Blazer is Jimmy's old roommate at Yale, and he treats life as an eternal Whiffenpoof Song. For kicks, the three sometimes bandy about "all the graphic, beautiful four-letter words of the Anglo-Saxon," but the revels turn sober when Claire and Jimmy end up in that old Anglo-Saxon place, bedd...