Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen's route should take her past the old people's home. A note of outrage was sounded in the Montreal Gazette when an indignant royalist reader protested against Canada's No. 1 hit song, The Battle of New Orleans, a catchy Tin Pan Alley jape about the rout of the British in the War of 1812: "I do suggest that this song be removed from the radio before Her Majesty's visit; otherwise she may get the impression that we are sadly lacking in manners...
...world records were set. But it seemed obvious that in the sprints, weight and jumping events, the U.S. could be confident of holding its own this summer in two big international track events: the U.S.-Soviet track meet next month and the Pan American Games in August...
...week's end junketing Sukarno reached Japan in his chartered Pan Am plane, celebrating his 58th birthday aboard. Before returning to his racked island nation, he intends to visit North Viet Nam and Cambodia. A spokesman for Sukarno said airily: "If it were a critical situation in Indonesia, the President would have stayed home...
...Richard Byrd, Billy Mitchell (who propounded his theory of airpower in the March 1921 issue), "Hap" Arnold, Chester Nimitz, Arthur Radford. Equally impressive is the Magazine's current board of trustees, e.g., U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay, Pan American Airways' President Juan Trippe...
...have never given it up. He likes trout fishing, golf (with luck, under 90), and singing hymns (he is a Presbyterian) and folk songs. He is an enthusiastic cook. Special ties: doughnuts, Pennsylvania Dutch coffeecake, and fluffy pancakes-for which his secret is a pinch of salt in the pan...