Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plugger for Jack Mills, Inc., Sammy filled in the gaps on radio stations between soap operas. "I'd finish a spot on WMCA or WHN and want to go home for dinner and the boss would say, 'Sammy, run over to WPCH like a good boy and knock out a couple of songs.' I'd go through blizzards with a sandwich in one hand. No wonder I wound up with double pneumonia every year. Ya know," he reminisces, "George Gershwin was also a song plugger in those days. But to be perfectly honest, he didn...
Sammy couldn't compose like Gershwin either. But he had managed to knock out some simple little songs and two of them became hits: Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine and Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella. He migrated to show business, wrote the music for the 1939 George White's Scandals-including another hit called Are You Having...
Frivolous Jumps. In the neatly appropriate year of 1900, a discovery was made that was to knock the props from under classical physics. In his Berlin laboratory, Max Planck, a 42-year-old German physicist, was trying to describe mathematically the emission of light by glowing bodies. No one had done it and Planck could not do it either-until, in a sort of desperation, he assumed that light does not flow in a smooth stream, as everyone supposed, but in tiny, indivisible bursts...
...thanked the Detroit fans for their support, though he admitted that "my mistakes caused many of [you] to desert me." It was a nice, humble, broad-minded piece, but hardly evidence that Dick Wakefield had changed. The question seemed to be whether cagey Yankee Manager Casey Stengel could knock the humility...