Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strange Wind. Shortly after the war, according to a popular story, some Washington women asked permission to put flowers and wreaths on the graves in Arlington. They had heard that such a custom had grown up among women in the South during the war. The War Department granted permission, the story goes, and designated May 30 as the decoration day, but attached a stern order: no flowers were to be placed on the graves of Arlington's 300 Confederate troops, who were buried in a segregated area. The ladies brought their floral offerings to the cemetery and obediently left...
Privately hopeful that the Sultan might prove more tractable than nationalist hotheads, the Faure government last, week appointed one of France's most popular career officials as new Resident General in Morocco. He is André Louis Dubois, 52, a pianoplaying, party-loving man who as chief of the Paris police won renown as "the prefect of silence" because he had managed to still the sounds of horn-blowing by Paris' ill-tempered motorists. In his new assignment, Dubois (who was born in Algeria) may find it necessary to fight ruder noises. Last week...
...hear how crude, sloppy and badly balanced most TV music is. Opening his eyes and looking, he can see how overbaked or tasteless the images that go with music can be. Last week's musical shows ranged from a brand-new opera to the singing of vintage popular songs. Most were calculated to make a music lover run to his radio or record player...
...most popular musical shows on TV, and the oldest, is NBC's Your Hit Parade (Sat. 10:30 p.m.), which offers musical dramatizations of the top seven tunes of the week, aided by the vocal efforts of Dorothy Collins, Gisele Mackenzie, Snooky Lanson and Russell Arms, and abetted by the orchestral ministrations of Raymond Scott. However many weeks a tune may hit Your Hit Parade, a different dramatization honors it each time. The dramatizations also have a way of transporting viewers and listeners far off in space and time, and even in spirit...
...vintage popular tunes (Gus Kahn hits of yesteryear) were sung by Tony Martin on NBC's show of the same name (Mon. 7:30 p.m.). This show, like Eddie Fisher's (Wed. 7:30 p.m., NBC) and Dinah Shore's (Tues., Thurs. 7:30 p.m., NBC), is dominated by a handsome singer who manages to put the imprint of his own personality on the songs he sings. Nonetheless, it is sometimes disturbing to watch the curious expressions on the faces of even these popular singers as they grope for the right note and also try to arrange...