Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interviews will last approximately ten minutes, and the Committee plans to select the delegate either Wednesday night or very soon thereafter. Although no formal "briefing" for the individual chosen is planned, shipboard discussions and a New York meeting for the American group before the conference will trace the background and main purpose of the convention...
...sixth, Miss Marjorie Conlin--not a college student--entered into the contest by the CRIMSON as a test case, has been disqualified. As an explanation of this move, officials of the Lampoon declared Tuesday night: "But we can't consider having her in our contest. She has no background...
Blues (Stella Brooks; Disc, 6 sides). A little (109 Ibs.) white gal with a blue voice sings the naughty colored lyrics of West End, Jazz Me ("Come On Professor") and other New Orleans classics. Background music by Hot Trumpeter Frankie Newton and five others makes these real collectors' blues. Performance: good...
...with "Human Rights" the subject of his three talks, the last of which will be given tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre, Stassen announced at a press conference on Tuesday that he would not be drawn into what he called "partisan politics." The ex-governor deemed the background of his lectures as inappropriate for swinging either on the Democrats or on the more conservative wing of his own party...
...England last week. The dramatization of Stephen Vincent Benét's Pulitzer-prize poem filled an hour and a half over the BBC, but it was worth it. Britons heard an eloquent adaptation by an American: Joel O'Brien, former assistant to Norman Corwin. In the background was a remarkable musical score by 24-year-old British Composer Arthur Oldham. Even his original Negro spirituals, set to Benét's words and inspired by listening to Hall Johnson records, sounded authentic. To Britons it all was more than a broadcast; it was a lesson...