Word: cola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the program that I want to write you: the Beethoven Fourth, Berlioz' "Royal Runt and Storm," and the Brahms First. Mr. Munch, this choice is surely a failure either of nerve or of imagination. Indeed, the guests have been fed beef and potatoes with a touch of cola slaw on the side. For this nourishing fare we must be grateful. Yet surely one can design a more stimulating musical diet: something earlier than Beethoven, something later than Brahms. Perhaps you are as weary of playing items of standard repertory as I am of hearing them at so many concerts...
...businessmen the world over, the products of National Cash Register Co. are as familiar as Coca-Cola. National machines tot up their bills, figure the payrolls, keep charge accounts straight. They are operated by Eskimos in the Arctic Circle, by Fuzzy-wuzzies in Africa; they are packed by llamas in the Andes, by camel cart in Pakistan. And the machines ring up sales in shillings, drachmas, piasters, kroner, yen, francs and even Russian kopecks...
...fine print was another pretty severe penalty: the studio suspension automatically cancelled Tenor Lanza's Coca-Cola-sponsored radio show, and the sponsor announced that the Lanza contract, which runs out the end of September, would not be renewed...
Once or twice a week the 29-year-old monarch puts on a gay, all-night party in his palace at Pnompenh. The guests are treated to ice cream, Coca-Cola and pink champagne, music by the royal band and free-hand composing by His Majesty. The king picks out tunes on the piano, saxophone or accordion; the band picks up and elaborates his themes and a professional musician jots them down...
...some 15,000 fans who turned out for the $87,637 Hambletonian did not agree with Bi Shively's figuring. They made Sharp Note their third choice, bet heaviest on Coca-Cola Heir Walter T. Candler's three-year-old Duke of Lullwater, and on Hit Song, owned by the Arden Homestead Stable and Lawrence B. Sheppard...