Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department stalled while seeking a new formula for hemispheric action. Its Good Neighbors sought just as feverishly for a way out of the U.S.-Argentine conflict, for un puente de plata-a bridge of silver-that might bind the Americas together and save their 56-year-old Pan American system...
Last week a somewhat shaky bridge had been found: the Pan American Union began to poll its members on postponement of the Rio conference. Onto the bridge stepped Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes: postponement would be agreeable to the U.S. if other nations wanted it. Then the Colombians, who will entertain all 21 republics at a regular Pan American conference at Bogotá next December, obligingly suggested that the whole business of a military treaty be put off till then...
Perry Como's Till the End of Time (a Tin Pan Alley rewrite of Chopin) was the biggest-selling single record of 1945 (more than 1,000,000 discs). Como versions of another Chopin tune, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, and Dig You Later ("A Hubba, Hubba, Hubba") which has sold over a million records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless...
...York-to-London fare would come down to $360 from $375, one-way fares to Stockholm would drop to $455 from $495. The new fares were based on a rate of about 10.4? a mile v. 4.5? on domestic U.S. routes, although Pan American Airways has publicly (and other airlines privately) called the rate too high...
...waiting for the Novocain to work." Several of Old Grad Boland's songs have sold well (The Gypsy in My Soul and I Live the Life I Love in 1937; Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush in 1939). He is considering several offers to turn Tin Pan Alley pro, but dentistry pays him too well. "Someone else will have to make up my mind," says Dr. Boland. "It's a hell of a spot...