Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three-Way Split. Most sensational leap of science in recent years is the splitting of the massive uranium atom, heaviest of the 92 standard elements, into nearly equal parts, with enormous returns of atomic energy (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939; May 27). Even physicists who turn up their noses at Buck Rogers talk had to admit that the practical harnessing of atomic power was now much nearer-though they still insist it is far off. When a slow-moving neutron hits the uranium atom's nucleus, the nucleus is constricted around the middle and finally splits, like an amoeba reproducing...
With sufficient money in his war chest to carry on the battle for over a year, ASCAP's Broadway-wise president, old Songwriter Gene Buck, was feeling pretty pleased with himself. Lucky Strike's Hit Parade he called the "bit parade." Meanwhile B. M. I. President Neville Miller, hero-mayor of the 1937 Louisville flood, boasted that many a station had been complimented on "the freshness and adequacy of B. M. I. music." Some listeners reacted otherwise. Ten thousand musicians, composers, educators signed petitions asking FCC to knock both B. M. I.'s and ASCAP...
Both Gene Buck and Neville Miller, mouthpieces for ASCAP and radio respectively, have voiced touching sentiments regarding their affection for the listening public and for what that public wants. Yet right now you and I have to sit around and listen to sugar-tongued announcers' plugging tunes obviously whipped up in an awful hurry for one purpose: to beat a deadline. Band leaders, whose themes songs are their musical John Hancock, are forced to change those themes for tunes which scarcely identify them or their music. Of course, we hear an occasional bell-ringer like There I Go, but that...
There is little hope for a draftee who says, "You can't do this to me; I'm a Harvard man." But bolstered by rumors that Government or Army officials have called it a "crime" to make buck privates of college-trained men, many undergraduates hope than once drafted, a degree or I.Q. test will single them out to be trained for technical or "white collar" jobs. Cheer has also been derived from occasional stories of college draftees who were promptly sent away to study meteorology or Intelligence Corps routine at Uncle Sam's expense. The picture is not quite...
...mood for compromise last week were Gene Buck and Neville Miller, presidents respectively of ASCAP and B. M. I. Firm was Mr. Miller that ASCAP would never get a percentage of the networks' gross for its music. Equally firm was Mr. Buck that ASCAP would not agree to a per-program arrangement dictated by B. M. I. Whatever happens B. M. I. will have to watch its step. One flourish on a horn of an ASCAP copyrighted tune may mean a minimum penalty of $250 for every station that broadcasts...