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...year or so ago the goodtime Charlies were hiking to the Top of the Mark on Nob Hill or streaking for the Pump Room in Chicago or screaming for cracked ice in the Adolphus in Dallas, but now there is all the trouble and hurrah anyone could ask for in Times Square and Madison Avenue. Manhattan is once more America's play town de luxe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midas' Return | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...juggle the "Mid-Western league" against the "Eastern league," and play one conductor off against another as if American music were a species of indoor athletics. "Life" recently announced, in its paternal way, that it was becoming "unpatriotic" not to like the Shostakovitch Seventh. The result of all this hurrah-boys publicity about the mere periphery and mechanics of music itself, which, unlike football, can't be made a universal pastime without cheapening it beyond recognition. It takes as much practice in listening to understand Beethoven as it does practice in reading to enjoy Shakespeare. It is also foolish...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

Navy men have long fumed that the Army grabs the glory while the Navy has done most of the fighting. Some admirals have advocated a high-pressure Hurrah-Navy campaign; others have preferred to suffer in seadog silence. But one 65-year-old admiral waited no longer last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Tommy Hart Speaks Out | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...Hurrah for the Dallas Morning News. It made Sam Rayburn mad and official Washington grumble, but the people of the U.S. got some news -3,300 planes a month, a trainload of tanks a day and from just one factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Eight tan, faultlessly dressed, glossy-haired men arose and shouted in unison: Chai-yo! (Hurrah). They shouted it five times. For the Minister announced that, no matter what his Government said: "I have decided to work from now on for one thing and one thing only-the re-establishment of free and independent Thailand." The ornate, red-carpeted sitting room, dazzling with gold-silk furniture, pillars and goddesses, echoed with the Oriental cheers. When he finished his eloquent speech, the Minister selected a cigaret from the skull of a tiger whose open jaws were lined with gold, and ended solemnly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Chai-yo for Thailand | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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