Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that perhaps the whole idea was a British plot to break up the French community in Africa. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan confessed that the whole thing came as a "complete surprise," and many Britons wondered why Nkrumah had not consulted his Commonwealth partners in advance. Nevertheless, the voice of pan-Africanism had spoken, and its echoes could be heard all through the week...
...Conny-who has sold 1,450,000 records on the Electrola label this year, earned royalties of $60,000 (of which her father-manager doles out pocket money at the rate of 26? a month). Sighing with all the delicate modulation of a stricken heifer, she belts out Tin Pan Alley tunes and ersatz German approximations with equal gusto. Conny just finished her first movie, commands a following of 56 adoring fan clubs with about 10,000 members. She travels about Germany with a retinue that includes a tutor and a private secretary...
...Last week even the stewardesses at little Lake Central Airlines (2,281 route miles in the Midwest) were striking for higher pay. (But this time the pilots, who had helped organize the stewardesses, walked through their picket line and kept flying; the pilots also own stock in the line.) Pan American World Airways also faces union trouble. Its A.L.P.A. pilots want up to $45,000 a year jet pay, have already forced a slowdown in jet schedules to Europe because they refuse to fly without a jet-age contract. To fill in. Pan Am has drafted 19 pilot-executives...
...last week was National Airlines, whose routes stretch along the Atlantic Coast to Florida. On Dec. 10 National will inaugurate the first domestic jet airliner service with daily flights on the rich New York-Miami run. Using 600-m.p.h. Boeing 707s under a complicated lease-stock deal with Pan American, which already flies jets across the Atlantic, National will make the 1,100-mile run in 2 hr. 15 min. To make sure that it can fly jets, National signed contracts with its pilots, flight engineers and mechanics running into...
...legacy of bitterness to Janie Jones, Casey's wife, mother of his daughter and two sons. For the next 58 years she lived with The Ballad of Casey Jones-and with the cruel lines added to a Negro engine wiper's mournful song by a Tin Pan Alley hack. "The Casey Jones song has haunted my whole life since the beginning of the century," she once said. Memphis railroaders were known to fight with strangers who sang the slanderous lines. For a while, the ballad was banned in Jackson, Tenn., where Janie Jones lived out the long, lean...