Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century ago New Bedford, Mass, sent whaling ships around the world, and its picturesque wharves fairly groaned with the raw material of period novels. But today New Bedford (pop. 110,000) is a textile mill town. Its Yankees have long since been joined by thousands of Irish, Portuguese, Greeks and Italians. It is old, shabby, resigned, and tolerant of both vulgarity and venality in politics as long as they are kept within reasonable bounds. When a glib, promise-'em-everything, ex-cotton salesman named Edward Peirce (pronounced purse) was elected mayor 20 months ago, New Bedford was undisturbed-even...
After eight years of gathering and verifying statistics, the city fathers of Frankfurt (prewar pop. 550,000) counted the cost of the war that Hitler started. Between 1939-45, reported the municipal bureau of vital statistics, 14,701 Frankfurt men were killed in action (64% on the Russian front); 5,000 more are listed as "missing in action," but of these, 75% are almost certainly dead...
...Dresden (pop. 468,000) lost 250,000 civilian dead in three nights of air bombardment in February...
...sale at U.S. pop-record counters last week was a ten-inch number with an attached red sticker of warning: "The enclosed record is HORRIBLE." The label was an understatement. The tunes (Fish and There's a New Sound) offer some of the most nightmarish vocals of modern times to the accompaniment of an asthmatic calliope. Sample lyric...
...weekly Down Beat has been strictly a hep-cat's magazine. But last year, after due deliberation, its editors decided that classical music was becoming entirely too popular to be ignored, decided to start reporting it.* This week, in a candid imitation of its own annual polls of pop music favorites, Down Beat published the results of its first survey of classical favorites. Excerpts...