Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news in island transport was being written by airlines rather than by the once-dominant Matson Navigation Co. Pan American carried 30,000 people to & from the mainland in the first nine months of 1947; United Airlines, 14,000 in the six months since it began to fly to the islands...
...days later, Pan American World Airways reported that one of its DC-4 Alaska Clippers, with 13 passengers and a crew of five aboard, was missing on a flight from Seattle to Juneau...
Levy, who is married to one of the Andrews sisters, is the man who launched such Tin Pan Alley successes as Beat Me Daddy and Scrub Me Mamma. Said he: "Look, Mr. Stravinsky, I would not like to write a chapter in my book about you -a book called You've Got to Die Before You Write Popular Songs." At first Stravinsky didn't get it. Then Levy reminded him of what Tin Pan Alley grave robbers had done to Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Why shouldn't Stravinsky steal from his own Firebird...
...papers, he denied that he had written the arrangement: he had only okayed it. Stravinsky once wrote an elephant's polka for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey, and a jazz concerto for Woody Herman (neither had the common touch). He will get double the going Tin Pan Alley rates for Summer Moon, and a 50-50 split on movie rights. Said he: "According to the newspapers, the only reason I wrote this arrangement was to make money. I am very glad if I do make money, but I am very glad also if everyone sings my song...
...Pan Alley was becoming a deadend street. More new songs were being published, played and plugged than ever before-but four of last week's top ten songs on Billboard's hit parade were at least 16 years...