Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S review (Nov. 20) of CBS' The Pursuit of Happiness, you told only half the story of Ballad for Americans which Paul Robeson sang so magnificently. The ballad, evidently through some oversight, was credited to me as creator. Actually, while I wrote the music, the entire text including the beautiful selections you reprinted, was the work of the young poet, John Latouche...
Previous experience for candidates is not necessary, authorities pointed out, "yet after only nine months, with only 215 hours in the air, they are at the controls of a 400-mile-an-hour pursuit ship, or looking down from the heights of a giant 'Flying Fortress' rearing through...
...have to say seriously, can be simply said. It's this:Democracy is a good thing. It works. It may creak a bit, but it works. And in its working, it still turns out good times, good news, good people. . . . And so, Life, Liberty and most particularly the Pursuit of Happiness, of these we sing!" In the first few weeks: Ray Middleton sang Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze, announced that the local cider mill was open for business; Raymond...
...first Pursuit of Happiness show this month, lusty Negro Baritone Paul Robeson volunteered. For his song, Director Norman Corwin dug up something called Ballad for Americans. Earl Robinson, its creator, is a two-fisted, not-too-widely recognized minstrel from the State of Washington...
...Paul Robeson to stampede an audience was not particularly startling. But last week's bravos established that: 1) Pursuit of Happiness was a hit radio show; 2) U. S. radio listeners are starved for such stuff. Composer Earl Robinson used to sing his own ballads in overalls, to his own guitar, barely subsisting on pickings from the late Federal Theatre, from earnest groups in Manhattan who found his songs good. Last week, Earl Robinson's song was on its way to a publisher, was slated for early recording, and in the wind was a Broadway stage production, with...