Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TRUSTBUSTER BARNES will soon announce more consent decree settlements in major antitrust cases being prosecuted by the Justice Department. Among companies negotiating for terms: RCA, United Fruit Co., Pan American-Grace Airways...
Harold Dahl was an air-age soldier of fortune with a quiet, ingratiating manner, the face of an unappreciated minor poet-and an astonishing talent for oscillating rapidly between the frying pan and the fire, meanwhile eating well and never getting badly burned. He was also a good pilot-and a very lucky...
...likely to be used as weapons. Then Port-of-Spain musicians turned to garbage-can tops and biscuit tins. Someone-maybe"Spree" Simon or Aulrick Springer or "Totee" Lewis-decided to outline the parts of the tin top which had different pitches. He dented a line across, dividing the pan into segments, and found he had two different notes. The establishment of a U.S. base brought the latest refinement: oil drums. And so the steelband was born...
Lamar himself, he admits, as two-time National A.A.U. Champion in his college career at Virginia, probably, though innocently, helped to bring about the downfall of intercollegiate boxing. However, he insists, the only opponents he was ever permitted to fight were other A.A.U. leaders. A Pan-American athlete in 1925, Lamar became Boxing Commissioner in Massachusetts in 1953 and was recently reappointed to serve for another three years in that post...
...someone would write new words to "The Gridiron King," much as the State of Maryland had adapted the old German Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" to its own purposes. This suggestion, however, evoked sharp editorial response from the ever-watchful Boston Herald: "Leave the songs to the birds and Tin-Pan Alley." The Herald's plan, however, does not appear to be the most practical solution. Massachusetts' Official State Bird is, of course, the chickadee...