Word: bogeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music in the '30s, when whole orchestras simply hurtled into the bass clef when a character tumbled downstairs. Columbia's The Bridge on the River Kwai, by British Composer Malcolm Arnold, skillfully melds its bellowing brasses and shivering strings with such traditional military airs as the Colonel Bogey March in a score long on pomp, short on circumstance. RCA Victor's Bonjour Tristesse, by French Composer Georges Auric-member of the sometime modernist group known as The Six*-offers the listener a deft American Express tour of the French psyche, is at its best when it cuts...
...Many Can Play? Thorneycroft plainly indicated that he thought the next step was up to the U.S. In the first six months of this year, U.S. exports to the sterling area exceeded imports by $396 million, and that hardy old bogey, the dollar gap, was once again casting its specter over Europe. (Even the Germans have an unfavorable balance of trade with the U.S.) At this week's International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, Thorneycroft and other European delegates will pose anew the old question: How can Europe play in the poker game of international finance and trade when...
...subcommittee last fall (TIME, Oct. 1), ASCAP Sympathizer Sinatra charged that Mitch Miller had tried to foist BMI songs on him while Frankie was at Columbia (Miller produced statistics in an effort to disprove the charge). In his telegram last week, Sinatra stated that Miller, Frankie's longtime bogey, had admitted accepting "large sums of money" from writers whose songs he recorded. Sinatra quoted Miller's words from sworn testimony: "Bob Merrill [responsible for If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd 've Baked a Cake and other hit tunes] would bring all the songs...
Snead, meanwhile, was slowing down. He was still flirting with par, but behind Ford's hot-handed game, par was not going to be good enough. Doug Ford shot not a single bogey; he had five birdies on his scorecard when he stepped to the 18th tee. His drive was straight, but he found his approach shot buried all but out of sight in a green-protecting trap. Now, if ever, he had an excuse to change his pace, to slow down and study his lie. He knew better. He walked into the sand, barely looked at the ball...
Warns Bill Martin: "Inflation leads to deflation and costs people their jobs. Our biggest bugaboo is unemployment." Eleusinian Mysteries. To lay this bogey, Martin is vigorously wielding the potent weapons at his command. Although every man, woman and child...