Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bouncy music of the old song has been discarded for a minor-keyed tune. The refurbished lyrics are by Songwriter Hy Zaret, who recalls: "I first heard The Lone Fish Ball at a party about a year ago. . . . [It] knocked me over. . . . My version was a lot different . . . but I decided I'd like to use some of the old lines. . . . I'd heard that James Russell Lowell had done a version of it. If Lowell can do it, Hy Zaret can . . . I figured...
Mousetraps and Notepaper. In the 387 pages of Victoria Through the Looking-Glass, Author Lennon, a minor U.S. poet and a student of anthropology, tries to answer her own question. To the tantalizing riddle of literary genius she has no answer, but she has brought together a fascinating collection of facts that show clearly the fantastically divided nature of the deacon who was equally a rigid, exemplary don and perhaps the most brilliant eccentric...
...Hotel Berlin" to give an insight into the Nazis' character structure and show how defeats are affecting their smug arrogance. Hollywood has adapted her novel into a lusty adventure story which has neither subtlety nor suspense and would be a complete failure if not for a few very impressive minor characterizations...
Oilman Frank Phillips watched with dismay while federal taxes and Oklahoma state levies ate deeper & deeper into his $50,000-a-year salary as board chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co. Finally the salary (a minor item of the Phillips income, anyhow) seemed to vanish altogether...
Lights Out. The alumni, for whom 40 rooms were reserved at St. Louis' Hotel Jefferson, ranged from Communist Robert Minor to elegant, man-about-Manhattan Herbert Bayard Swope. They rolled into St. Louis-on Pulitzer's money and no encouragement from the ODT-from all parts of the U.S. The P-D's No. 1 alumnus, aloof, astute Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, 72, managing editor for 28 of the P-D's greatest years, was ill and sent regrets...