Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late last year, London Records found its German-language recording selling like hot cakes, decided it would sell even faster in English. Lyricist Malia Rosa, who is also May Singhi ("Ukulele Lady") Breen and Mrs. Peter (Deep Purple) De Rose, thought up simple words to match the simple tune ("Forever and ever, My heart will be true," etc.). Gracie Fields recorded it first, then Dinah Shore, Perry Como and Margaret Whiting, and within days it was a hit. Malia Rosa's explanation: "It's down to earth; it reeks with sincerity...
...week starting Thursday, May 19. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...
...They change their frequencies suddenly and often, instructing the Russian listeners to "search all short-wave bands." This keeps the jammers on the jump. It takes them about twelve seconds on the average to find and jam a dodging program. In the unjammed interval, an alert Russian listener may sometimes pick up a tidbit of news...
...conditioning. McCord and Witheridge point out that workers in horribly smelly places (such as glue factories) eat hearty meals while surrounded by putrefying carrion, but visitors in such surroundings get sick at the thought of eating anything. People whose minds are fully occupied are often unconscious of odors. "It may be doubted," observe McCord and Witheridge, "that the handful of men and women on Noah's Ark, with their own existence threatened, complained of animal odors about the place." But less preoccupied people than the Noah family make a major to-do about minor stenches...
...forbids expulsion of newsmen for lawful newsgathering, and prohibits censorship except on national-defense matters. Under its "right of correction," a signatory country that feels a correspondent has distorted the news can send its own version to his government, which must release the correction to all news agencies but may not require its publication. All in all, U.S. Delegate Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, thought the treaty a beginning step that would strengthen "agreed principles based on the right of the people to know...