Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 600,000 persons paid to see the fair ("Around the World for 90?," said the advertisements), and 127,780 buyers went in free. Some exhibitors could hardly believe the size of their sales. Belgium's Boisiree Van Dan Heuvel, which usually sells 200 cases of beer a month in the U.S., signed one deal to deliver 82,000 cases in the next year. Textilemaker Maya de Mexico sold the output of its entire plant for the coming year. And the overall statistic was enough to make the show's backers schedule a repeat performance next year...
...Orleans to Limehouse. No one seems to know exactly how skiffle got its name, but according to some jazz buffs, it appeared under that name at the rent parties held in Chicago in the '205. Dan Burley, oldtime Chicago jazz pianist, says the simple, two-beat blues was first played by groups of Negro teen-agers too poor to pay the fare into Chicago's hot jazz spots. "It was the product of the Depression, the fusion of gospel shouts, spirituals and time spent in hole-in-the-wall joints where you ate chili and got a bellyache...
Daggers from Faye. Next, crabs began to crawl over Diana's bedroom ceiling ("Can you get DTs when you're only thirty?"). A heart attack carried off husband Bob, leaving Diana at the mercy of strong-minded Dan Freeman, her summer-stock leading man. Dan led Diana to a children's playground, murmured: "Come on, baby, sit in the swing . . . You're a sick girl. Diana . . . You are going to get to God." Instead. Diana found Dan massaging her back, crooning gently: "Ei-lu-lu, Bab-en-u. Ei-lu-lu-lu-lu. Baby...
...came, in October 1952, when dim-eyed old Dan Tobin could no longer forestall Beck's rise to the throne. Tobin himself placed Beck in nomination for the Teamsters' presidency with a soaring declaration: "There is not the slightest stain on his character. His conscience, I am sure, shines brilliantly in the eyes...
Emmet, who was seeded second in the tournament, was upset by unseeded Dave Mason of Pittsburg in a close five-game match. Stephen Vehslage of Haverford (Pa.) School defeated Dan Morgan, Jr. of Yale in the other semi-final contest of the tourney. Eliminated in the quarter-finals were Ralph Mason Jr. of Pittsburg; H. Von L. Meyer Jr., Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.; John Ireton, Toronto University; and Romer Holloran, Exeter Academy...