Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul White: Sea Chanty for Harp and Strings (Harpist Edna Phillips with string quintet, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Blow the Man Down, Tommy's Gone Forever and When Johnny Comes Down to Hilo saltily done. Performance: excellent...
...Long ago he realized that what he lacked in high budgets and Washington connections could be made up in speed. He has already completed, for Fox release, a Nazi spy chase called Rendezvous 24. While not strictly an atom-bomb picture, it deals with German scientists who tried to blow up Paris by radio-controlled atomic energy. It may conceivably pass, in the sticks, for the veritable atomic gospel...
...world hungry men waited. And in the Southwestern wheat belt, U.S. farmers had a new Agriculture Department warning to brood over: another dust bowl was in the making. During the war, too much land had been farmed too hard. Now there was grave danger that retributive weather would blow that land away...
With the guarded peiorism that farmers live by, the Southwest was inclined to scoff. True, there was a blow last fortnight that sent yellow dust billowing from Kansas to Texas. But it was no black blizzard of '36. True, the land was parched from the worst drought in ten years. It was too loose, drifting now and ready to fly in the shrill March winds...
Good or bad, an orchestra was finally got together. By combing through Havana's military bands, Stokowski found 55 men who had been known to blow horns. To sing Schiller's Ode to Joy, which concludes the symphony, he hired a Cuban chorus of 150 who knew no German. Then 21 string players and a tenor who knew German were flown from New York by chartered plane. And Stokowski triumphantly assured Cubans that the sublime music of Beethoven would be conducted by the sublime Stokowski-three days late...