Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (Verve LP). After 22 years of making records for Decca-plus a few before even Decca latched onto him-Bing Crosby steps out with a handful of oldies on a new label, proves himself virtually indestructible. It is only when he tries to swing too high that he begins to. sound...
...will be launched from Patrick Air Force Base at Point Canaveral, Florida, out over the Atlantic. While it might be easier to observe if fired due north, directly over the pole, inhabitants of Virginia or the Carolinas might be upset to find the earlier stages of the rocket dropping onto their front lawns. Fish, presumably, won't complain...
Mayor Sullivan, however, attacked the scheme on the grounds that car-owners would violate the alternate-side regulations just as they violate the present over-night parking restrictions. Vellucci's plan, he said, "would only take the cars out of the garages and parking lots and throw them onto the streets...
...animated rag doll bounded onto the television screen, ogled the camera lens, wagged a pair of aileron ears at the audience and wrapped his rubber legs around the lilt of a song. Ray Bolger, the greatest U.S. comic dancer and a veteran of 30 years in show business, was back at work in TV-and just in time to inject some merriment into TV's procession of tired clowns. In a $1,500,000 musical potpourri called Washington Square, a sentimental paean to Manhattan's self-consciously picturesque Greenwich Village, Hoofer Bolger is making his second attempt...
...authors without such a business background-and even for some with -the problem is still a lack of real understanding of what goes on behind company doors. All too often their characters are stereotyped portraits grafted onto a business setting, characters closer to Freud than the factory. Even John P. Marquand argues Harvard Professor Lynn, in Marquand's novel about a businessman, Sincerely, Willis Wayde, has much of the action take place offstage in suburban drawing rooms, thus making it more a novel of manners than of business. Says Lynn: "Like so many writers, Marquand knows society well...