Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gilbert's distress, the lowly singing commercial-once denounced by Herbert Hoover, and banned from the air "in the public interest" by Detroit's WWF -now commands the talents of bigger names than his. Last month Frank (Guys and Dolls) Loesser entered the jingle-writing lists with a new firm, Frank Productions Inc., which boasts a creative stable dwarfing the credits of any Broadway musical: Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael, Vernon (April in Paris) Duke, Harold (Fanny) Rome and, for lyrics alone, Ogden Nash. On his heels came Raymond Scott, composer of Lucky Strike's Be Happy, Go Lucky...
...consequence of his attempted one-man rule, the Commission has almost become a front for its chairman's foibles. Among these are a devotion to secrecy about the dangers of fall-out (except in the exchange of information with Britain, where Strauss was treated like royalty) and a Hoover-like faith in big business. One more side of Strauss' character is his determination to continue testing the big bombs. He is searching for a "clean" bomb, rather than limiting experiments to tactical weapons...
Unforgettable Exordium. The program opens with a roll of drums and a dashing fanfare of twelve trumpets that ends in a sad plop. The fanfare is followed by Composer Malcolm Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture, dedicated to "President Hoover" (says the program note: "The momentous opening-the beginning of an introduction that is to contain the foreshadowings of all the principal thematic material-is among the unforgettable exordiums of music, echoing, as it does, what might be called the elemental power of the ethos of sublimity . . ."). The Overture is scored for "a prodigious array of percussion, pitched...
Died. William Grove (Bill) Skelly, 78, founder and board chairman of Skelly Oil Co., a Republican power in Oklahoma, where he dished out federal patronage during the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Known as "Mr. Tulsa," he donated more than $250,000 to Tulsa University; of a kidney ailment; in Tulsa...
...Named Air Force Secretary: James Henderson Douglas Jr., 58, longtime Chicago corporation lawyer who has been Under Secretary since 1953, served as President Hoover's youthful Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A subpar golfer during student days at Princeton, Cambridge and Harvard Law, he advanced in 1921 to the British Amateur quarterfinals, still shoots in the mid-1970s, though he plays only occasionally...