Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tawny Pipit. Very English but very agreeable fun about a pair of rare birds that set an ornithophilous English village on its ear (TIME...
Skilled as they are in letter-perfect footwork, the Band knows the score musically as well. Bandsmen proudly explain that "Wintergreen," their most popular number, has more to it than meets the ear and is actually a blending of 2 Harvard, 2 Yale, 1 Dartmouth, and 1 Princeton songs, all mixed in with "Of Thee I Sing" and then wafted up the aisles of the Stadium. The semicircle formation used to offset the alphabetical parade down the field is an original idea and "Wintergreen" when first heard was considered a daring innovation. People weren't sure whether concert-type arrangements...
...Ear for Beefs. Bucky Harris' performance, in his first season as Yankee manager, was a classical study in human relations. At 50, his long string of failures after a smashing initial success (as the "boy manager" of the 1924 Washington Senators) had given Bucky a special understanding of athletes and their failings. He never bawled a player out. His theory: a pat on the back is worth two pep talks. He took a talented but out-of-sorts team, listened to all the complaints, took the players' side in any beef with the front office. Once, when...
...consequence in Hungary, and the Red goon squads went enthusiastically to work on Pfeiffer's Independence Party. They broke up a meeting at Szentes, 80 miles southeast of Budapest, by throwing eggs, vegetables, yellow paint and bricks. A newsman was deafened, temporarily at least, when struck on the ear by a cantaloupe...
...with a patriotic motif. Touring the British Isles, Gracie performs before large audiences of workers, as a part of Britain's current production drive. Britons are fondly familiar with the "low but clean" pattern of a Fields performance. There are 45 minutes of sentimental ballads, sung in an ear-jarring soprano that sometimes shrills up to high C, and comedy songs (like her famed The Biggest Aspidistra in the World), screeched out in unabashed Lancastrian...