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With these efforts, it seemed that little of the Christmas spirit remained to be evoked, but Victor kept on releasing Christmassy disks until it had the subject covered in a world tour de force. The route: from Europe, with Italian Jingle Bells (Campanella, campanella, solo bella . . .) sung by Lou Monte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

Humble Pie. "When our number is 40, they mock and tease; when we're 39, they're down on their knees," runs an old academy jingle. However talented and rebellious, aspirants to this particular Olympus must first appease the gods-in-being by eating a certain amount of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Green Fever | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

"From the time the case began we picked up our copy of the Times a little nervously each day, wondering on what obscure page we would find the Sheppard story. In the beginning there were whole days when not a word appeared, or when we could find only a lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Drama of the Times | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

This corrupt version of a well known jingle applies particularly well to Clifford Odets' new play, The Flowering Peach. Whenever Odets is naughty or cute, whether to shock or titillate the audience, he wins laughs or gasps of admiration. But when he sticks to his calling as that rare theatrical...

Author: By R. J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Flowering Peach | 12/9/1954 | See Source »

This old Wall Street jingle is usually reserved for the short sellers (i.e., those who sell stocks they do not own in hopes of buying them cheaper later for delivery). But last week it was the New York Stock Exchange itself that was painfully reminded of the penalties of selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Caught Short | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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