Word: rataplanned
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...With a rataplan and a paradiddle, U.S. radio last week opened its 1947-48 season. But it was no use for listeners to strain their ears hoping for something new. Nearly every one of the 80-odd new network shows would...
...emotional bravura, of florid fiddling. Behind its clown's make-up there was nothing much of a face. Yet the makeup, at first glance, was by no means unstriking. For half the evening, indeed-while its melodrama seemed crouching to spring-He had a jittery tension, a rataplan rhythm, a glare of circus lights and blare of circus music, that were theatrically vivid. Then things got fuzzy and highflown, and the melodrama lost its edge, the atmosphere lost its eeriness. The minor characters became tiresome, and the main character turned operatic...
...means dull are Pearson & Allen's trained seals. Outspoken about wealthy industrial fifth columnists was Attorney General Jackson; blunt Lord Lothian adlibbed his eight-minute spot to eleven minutes in discussing Great Britain and the war. Pearson & Allen wind up each show with a rataplan of predictions and inside tips, which they are careful to make different from those in their column. Sample scoops: that Roy Howard was "the one exception" mentioned by the President in speaking of those who agreed to serve in National Defense; that Aluminum Co. of America would sign with the U. S. to produce...
...three, four . . . thirteen, fourteen, Go!" Up went the barrier and off went nine of America's fastest three-year-old trotters-with a rataplan dear to U. S. horse lovers. It was the Hambletonian, richest and most famed of the 25,000 harness races held in the U. S. every summer. In the stands, drawn from far & near to New York's drowsy little village of Goshen, 30,000 fans craned their necks for a glimpse of the start...
Last week, with no rataplan of drums, The Admiral and The Biscuit met at Pimlico. The purse was $15,000-mere horse feed. Both had been beaten by mediocre horses since last spring. But 40,000 devotees, nonetheless interested, jampacked the old Civil War race course outside Baltimore. In hushed silence they watched the two thoroughbreds walk up to the starting line,* watched Seabiscuit, with Georgie Woolf up, zoom in front in the first few strides. At the first quarter Seabiscuit was two full lengths ahead. Then a roar swept over the ancient stands: pretty little War Admiral, the favorite...