Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High point of the show is a forlorn ballad sung by Lanky Blonde Ellen Hanley about a wan, straight-haired maiden who attends a meeting of an antique music society and trustingly goes home with a base-hearted fellow enthusiast...
...passes." Knopf scoffs at overstimulated advertising ("Never has a book offered so much") and fraudulent announcements of "12 superb new novels" in a single season An offender not mentioned: Publisher Knopf, who decorated the book jacket of Come with Me to Macedonia (TIME, Aug. 26), one of the most forlorn comic novels of the season, with this endorsement: "I cannot remember when I have laughed so much over a novel...
After a single forlorn year as a white "good-music" station, WDIA began beaming its voice at 1,230,000 Negroes who live within the 50,000-watt range from Cairo, Ill. to Jackson, Miss. It was soon heeded not only in homes and cars but in the fields, where cotton pickers still take portable radios to pick up the disk-jockey ramblings of Theo ("Bless My Bones") Wade and such musical shows as Tan Town Coffee Club, Wheelin' on Beale and Hallelujah Jubilee. Despite the jazzy titles, WDIA favors spirituals over romp-and-stomp music...
After bitter storm and snow struck much of the drought belt this month, forlorn farmers held out the bright hope that the weather cycle might have turned for good. Last week U.S. Weather Bureau long-range forecasters brightened the hope even more, reported that "recent upper-air circulation patterns are changing . . .the severe drought may not return in the coming growing season." Meaning: bigger crops, happier farmers. Probable consequences: more surpluses and plenty of new headaches for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...
...business. And Eartha Kitt. with her feline grace and mannered charm, is frequently mehitabelish, and at the worst gives Kitt for cat. But the show's plotless proceedings have little episodic lift, the score is unexciting and the dancing dated, and Eddie Bracken's archy seems understandably forlorn...