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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stepping briskly down from his special Pan American Convair at Washington's airport, Tacho Somoza embraced Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller and announced: "I feel at home here." Next day he called on Dean Acheson. Asked by newsmen what problems he had discussed with Acheson, Somoza answered blandly: "We have no problems in Nicaragua." Later, President Truman had Tacho to lunch at the renovated White House, showed his guest around the place and played the piano for him. "A great pianist," said Tacho...
After four years of fighting for cut-rate transatlantic flights, T.W.A. and Pan American this week finally put them into operation. The new tourist rates, also effective on the nine scheduled foreign carriers,* are about 30% cheaper than first class, and are available on 39 flights a week. By August there will be 71 weekly tourist flights each way, with seats for 8,000 passengers. Already booked heavily through July, the tourist flights are expected to swell to a record 400,000 the number of American tourists traveling in Europe this year. Sample tourist fare this summer: round trip from...
...T.W.A.: A 46-day "grand tour." Stops in 21 cities of "eleven nations, including Scandinavia and the Low Countries, with three days in London, three in Rome and four in Paris. Price: $1,388.10. ¶ Pan American: A "ten-day special." Four days in England, including London, Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick Castle; four days in Paris, including a trip to Versailles. Price: $617. ¶ Sabena: Two weeks in Belgium, Holland, England and France, including a motor trip through Holland, excursions to Windsor Castle and Versailles. Price: $642. ¶ Scandinavian: A 23-day tour taking in London, Paris, Amsterdam...
...that restless too?" the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley might well shout in chorus. Berlin has published some 850 songs, and 25 of these have been what Tin Pan Alley classifies as not just hits, but Tremendous Hits. White Christmas, for instance, has sold 3,000,000 copies of sheet music and 14 million records. In the words of the music business, it is a "standard," and automatically sells about 300,000 copies every Yuletide season. Presumably it will go on doing so until Christmas is abolished...
...Berlin numbers have been what he, a relentless critic of his own work, admits were "successes," which means that they have coined money. More than 30 stage musicals and movies that he has composed songs for have achieved hit status. "The guy's simply dirty with smashes," Tin Pan Alley sighs with envy. Joe Schenck has put it more conservatively: "Irving never lost money for anybody...