Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera Salome a couple of years ago, the striptease question had to be faced. How would the heroine be shown on TV screens after she took off the seventh veil? "Sheath her in a fleshcolored leotard," said Stockton Helffrich, a specialist in such matters. "Have the camera pan on her neck. Then once everybody knows she's wearing something under the veils, you can go to town...
...there are tangible evidences of successes. A Cresap, McCormick & Paget survey of the New York Central introduced new budget and inventory control systems, divided jobs into staff and line posts, and resulted in a payroll saving of $600,000 annually. Ernst & Ernst's management consultant division charged Pan American a whopping $750,000 for reorganizing its huge Miami engine overhaul base and crew scheduling system, but saved the airline "millions," according to Pan Am's own estimate. Robert Heller & Associates' reorganization of the Post Office Department into 15 regions, and the regions into many districts, eliminated...
...Drama: NBC's Producers' Showcase, with "a special bow to Peter Pan...
...THOUSAND times a day. U.S. jukeboxes moaned out Sixteen Tons, a Tin Pan Alley folk song about a coal miner who is soul-deep in debt to his employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers...
Help from Cairo. Last summer he sent an old friend and fellow "Free Officer," Major General Ahmed Hassan el Faki, as an ambassador to spread the word of Egypt's pan-Arabism. Neighboring Libya was a part of Mussolini's empire until