Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time for jazz," says the deep voice carefully. "Time for jazz," echo tens of thousands of loudspeakers around the world, as the strains of Duke Ellington's Take the A Train die into the background. For the next hour, seven nights a week, 52 weeks a year, the world's most widely heard disk-jockey program has the attention of listeners in 80-odd countries. It is the second and more popular portion of Music U.S.A. (the first half is pop tunes), the Voice of America's only regular music program. The words come from Disk Jockey...
...series by finding the source of the elusive heroine herself: Mrs. Anthony Corkell, nee Bridie Murphy, 59-year-old mother of seven who lived just across the street during young Virginia's impressionable early years. The little girl was curious about the Corkell family's Irish background, had a crush on a Corkell boy named John, the anglicized version of Sean-the spectral Bridey Murphy's husband. A onetime neighborhood playmate remembered Virginia well: "She had a good imagination. I always thought she could write a book...
Teller's speech did not give the present status of U.S. thermonuclear research, but it did give a great deal of background, new to most outsiders, about the path (or one of the paths) that Project Sherwood is following...
...further background on the Furry and Kamin cases, see today's special supplement, page S-Six, which was printed earlier in the week, before yesterday's government announcement...
...their actual views in order to appear less objectionable to students. "If I became known as some radical character," Daland says, "then I would reduce my usefulness to the University." Students at Alabama are unprepared to hear that Negroes are in no way inferior to white people. Their whole background and immediate environment hold that Negroes are inferior. Any professor who taught an undisguised theory of equality would immediately be relegated to the lunatic fringe...