Word: piping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapermen on hand for the occasion were figuring on an even higher total, but the miners, who are a courageous lot, fooled everybody. Promptly adjusting to the situation in which they found themselves, many of the men lay on their bellies and sucked air through tiny holes in a pipe. Some lay on their bellies and sucked air for 43 hours. Help eventually found them, and 88 in all, I think--88 who had been designated for celestial honors by the boys at the head of the shaft--emerged into daylight with their heads held high...
Since then, Melody in A Major has appeared in many incarnations, including arrangements for violin, pipe organ, alto sax, and in 1951 Broadway Veteran Carl (Bongo Bongo) Sigman wrote some lyrics for it. But it took another seven years to the end of the long, long road from the McKinley Administration to the Hit Parade. Last summer M-G-M hauled out the old song, gave it a slushy arrangement halfway between rock 'n' roll and a ballad. By last week It's All in the Game was the biggest "new" hit in the country, ranked...
...funny. The play is indeed an anything-goes sort of script, and all too much of it goes awry. Perhaps the producers decided not to fret over the script, thinking that the nub of Drink lay in the staging, in what that master of accelerating insanity, George Abbott, could pipe into a yarn of careening drunkenness. Director Abbott and his downer of Scotch, Tom Poston, constitute the brighter side of the occasion. But Drink to Me Only is not an occasion, is not often very bright...
...stool regulars at a hotel near the railroad tracks occasionally like to tell a story about the Lehigh professor who set off to shop in North Bethlehem on a windy day, started across the bridge, turned around to light his pipe, and walked back to the campus...
...Archbishop Meyer 55, was in Baltimore for a consecration* when the Vatican made its announcement, probably was glad to be out of town for the Milwaukee fuss and feathers that attended the news. No lover of the limelight, he is a scholarly, quiet man who smokes an occasional pipe, takes an occasional fishing trip (he calls fishing the "apostolic recreation") and puts in an occasional appearance at County Stadium to watch the Milwaukee Braves...