Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grutzner, 51, since 1941 a reporter for the New York Times. By chance, Grutzner was presented on a CBS Omnibus TV program as a typical Times reporter. Burdett named him as a member of the prewar Brooklyn Eagle Communist unit. Times executives, tipped off to Grutzner's Communist background, questioned Grutzner in May. He quickly admitted party membership from 1937 to 1940. He had been recruited by Nat Einhorn, he testified, over a cup of coffee. "I considered it a closed chapter," said Grutzner, explaining his previous silence. "I just forgot about...
...singing roles are men; it contains a minimum of tunes and some very strange harmonic goings-on indeed. And yet it is a strong work from overture to the final hymn to freedom, and is even gripping in three long narratives by the prisoners against a background of unnerving orchestral fantasy. Over all hangs an eerie, Kafka-like haze that results partly from the use of exotic folk idiom, partly from acoustical theories that led Janacek to dispense with accepted harmonic transitions. Because of its static quality, Aus Einem Totenhaus has had few performances in the opera house. On records...
...Just as Crazy as Hell." Johnson's Texas bragging hides a long, sound business background. After a hard-knocks youth, he went to work in 1923 for Anderson, Clayton & Co., big U.S. cotton merchants, as a cotton weigher at $110 a month. He moved up fast. "In 1938," he recalled, "I was sent to Brazil to manage the company's cotton compress at São Paulo. On the way down by boat, I happened some way to sit at the captain's table. He was an Englishman, an' he took to ridin' me pretty...
...Rare (The Three Haircuts; Victor). Funnyman Sid Caesar's answer to the inanities of rock 'n' roll records, disk-jockey lingo, and the hyped-up state of pop music in general. With a screaming, honking, socking background, the Haircuts mimic the Crew-Cuts with their howl: "Yew are sooo rare to me! So very rare to me! So if I'm rare to yew, won't yew be rare...
...Soldiers Field, Athletic Director William Bingham was busy denying the Carnegle Report on Intercollegiate Athletics, which claimed that Crimson athletes had a share in concession profits. The football team, meanwhile, was busy edging Yale, 10-6, and football fans had again stolen the Elis' fence, the tra- ditional background for Yale's Captain pictures. It was later mysteriously returned...