Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Groaner had refused to go back on the Kraft Cheese Co.'s Music Hall after his summer vacation; the company claimed that his contract didn't expire until 1950. Bing and his business-managing brothers, Larry and Everett, insisted that the contract was technically dead. And until Der Bingle could name his own terms, including the right to transcribe his programs weeks before they are broadcast, he was deter mined to cheese it. Kraft took its grievance to court...
Belched Danube. Their first big seller, in 1942, was the Hitler lampoon, Der Führer's Face. When it sold a phenomenal 1,500,000 records, Spike took the City Slickers on a road tour. Recalls Spike: "We were too corny for sophisticated people, and too sophisticated for corny people." But by the end of the tour, collectors and radio disc-jockeys were calling for more. He set about deflating some of Tin Pan Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else...
...Viennese Scholar Gustav Glük pointed to the glutton seated halfway down the table with the spoon in his mouth, perhaps because he is the only man looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just wasn't there. He backed up his opinion with an old Flemish proverb: " 'It's a poor man who is not able to eat at his own wedding.' That seems...
...worked wonders. The anti-Government attacks had stopped dead. One rumored reason for the reimposition of strict press control: the former German Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann, had squealed in Germany and implicated, as Nazi connivers, Argentina Army officers, from General of the Army Carlos von der Becke on down...
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (arranged for orchestra by Antal Dorati; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conducting; Victor, 6 sides). A medleyed-up, strictly instrumental ar rangement, effervescently played. Performance and recording: good...