Word: dodo
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...Most passenger equipment is outmoded and should be completely replaced with fast, streamlined trains. (One railroad executive admitted: "One of the radical departures is to consider the comfort and convenience of the passenger." Another: "The open-section Pullman car is as extinct as the dodo." Another: "We will never buy another heavyweight car . . . car builders will be swamped with orders for [streamlined] equipment...
...prize she and her husband had endowed for 18 years went to Doris Lee's gently caricatural Thanksgiving in 1935. She thereupon dedicated a society for "Sanity in Art" to the proposition that "The 'Cuckoo of Publicity' has laid the egg of a new 'dodo bird' in the hard nest of art," thereafter purred contentedly at her own safe & sane exhibits. She was a cofounder of the American College of Surgeons...
...plugger of the nation's biggest song hit met last fortnight for the first time. The song: As Time Goes By ("A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, the fundamental things apply as time goes by").* The composer: massive, white-haired Herman ("Dodo") Hupfeld, who wrote it in 1931. The plugger: a short, stocky Negro named (Arthur) Dooley Wilson, who started this forgotten ditty toward its sensational present success by the loving way he sang it in the Warner Bros, movie Casablanca (TIME, Nov. 30). Dodo and Dooley met at Manhattan's Greenwich...
...copies. Recording companies, searching their files for the old Vallee and Renard records, have found their biggest bonanza since Boss Petrillo's ban on popular recording (TIME, June 22). While that ban exists, no disc can be made of Dooley's version. But both Dooley and Dodo are doing all right...
...poured ashore. Little boxes of ice cream were handed to them and they stood around eating it like men dreaming. Someone lowered the Stars & Stripes; someone else pulled a blue ensign up at the bow. But no one touched the ship's accomplishment flag on the periscope-a dodo bird rampant on a black field, with eleven little Jap flags sewn on the margin. At the bottom of the flag were the words: "so SOLLY...