Word: dish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is one generalization which can safely be drawn concerning music today it is that this is a primarily symphonic age. All over the country people flock to concert-halls to hear the modern orchestra, like some gigantic cocktail-shaker, dish up a little Beethoven, Wagner, and Rimsky-Korsakov...
This amazingly eloquent picture-without-words tells the whole story: "Nuts to you, Mr. President," for unless my eyes deceive me the photographer caught Mr. Farley in the act of passing "the nut dish to "the Boss...
Though their everyday oddities are her dish of tea, the serious talents of such male characters as Picasso and Stravinsky escape imprisonment in Miss Planner's prose. Yet her detailed profile of Adolf Hitler, written in 1935, is extraordinarily prescient (she recalls that at the time her editors doubted he was worth the space). Probably the most cheerfully cold-blooded reporting in the book is in Genêt's accounts of several eminent French murder cases. Sample (of a couple of life-insurance murders): "Both mates were tucked into the potter's field where their viscera...
California. Daily dish of Harold Ickes, Interior Department Secretary, is trouble; if none is handed him, he seeks it out. But last week he turned up in San Francisco's Hotel Mark Hopkins in a new role: pacifier. Problem Mr. Ickes had come to pacify: California's besieged Governor Culbert Olson wanted to name & head a Term III ticket in the May 7 primary. So did Warhorse William Gibbs McAdoo, now a shipping magnate. A split progressive vote would put sand in the bandwagon's axles, might let John Garner's delegates romp home ahead...
...kind of good jazz--and Donahue has it. Junie Mays (piano--also some excellent arrangements), Bill Hoffman (bass) and Charlie Carroll on drums do a sweet job besides furnishing the "flash" solos that any band needs these days to satisfy the customers. Stewie McKay, who used to dish out hot tenor, also occasional oinks on the bassoon for Red Norvo, is dispensing for Donahue, as are Sal Pace (alto), Johhny Martel (former Goodman trumpet man), and Miff Sims (trombone), all of whom are good. Paula Kelly and Phil Brito do the vocals, both being personable and good; the former...