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...clattering rhythm section, galloping violins, and something that roared like the M-G-M lion. The overall effect was a little like an echoing nightmare in a subway express. But it didn't bother the fans of "the new sound" (TIME, Oct. 29): they were buying the platter faster than any Decca record since Good Night, Irene. Peggy Lee's attitude: "I sing the way the song seems to want to be sung...
...very happy to note in TIME, May 26, that you have finally served General MacArthur his just desserts on a silver platter-a bowl of sour grapes...
...Platter Chatter. Columbia Records, Inc. brought out four unbreakable 6-in., 78 r.p.m. records for children, starring Ballplayers Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, Bob Feller and Ralph Kiner. Each star gives tips on his specialty ("Here's how to lay down a sacrifice bunt . . ."; "A good pitcher never leaves anything to chance . ; ." etc.). Price per record...
...willing senior, putting office staff, equipment, and expense accounts at his disposal, and later accepting his results as an honors thesis. Thus students in other departments, working independently, must watch a privileged few get their ideas and procedures devised by faculty members and handed to them on a silver platter. This is especially unfair in a Social Relations thesis, where the idea and the procedural techniques are the most important elements. The affair becomes even more unsavory in the case of several students working on the same assigned project: one may simply be doing mechanical work such as adding...
Alexander Clark, assistant director of the office, thinks the "100-percenters" are wrong, but for different-reasons. He asks the basic question: "Are you going to spoon-feed your man with a lot of jobs that you hand to him on a platter, or are you going to train him so he can go out and find a job for himself...