Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest celebration of them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast Guard cadet chorus sing Civil War songs (Dixie, Battle Hymn of the Republic), and Actor Fredric March read the Gettysburg Address...
...Communist Whittaker (Witness) Chambers, 57, rusty now in a language he could read and write passably in his literary youth, signed up for an early-dawning TV course in elementary Russian offered by Washington's George Washington University...
...television scorecard that promised so many hits in September by last week read like a list of amateur-night losers. Latest Nielsen ratings reported only one this-season entry among the top ten: ABC's oater. The Rifleman. All the rest of the top ten are oldtimers, and apart from the Danny Thomas Show, they are all westerns. Reaching charitably down into the top 30, Variety records a few new "nervous" hits, e.g., Peter Gunn, The Texan. But TV's winter statistics make up a sad list of dead and dying shows...
...South alone. Folsom Prison Blues, Ballad of a Teen-Age Queen-everything he turned out became a hit. And everything he composed came easily. "I write songs in the back of the car," Johnny explains, "or in hotel rooms, in planes." But "write" is the wrong word. He cannot read a note. Johnny simply picks out the tunes that arrange themselves in his head, plays them over and over till the boys know them well and can record them on tape...
Writer Emmett Watson of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (circ. 196.955) had trouble built into his weekly column. While it read like a gossip column, it was actually an advertisement paid for by ten Seattle restaurants whose names Watson dropped among the items. Possibly because the column rested on that highly dubious journalistic base, Watson at times stretched a grin into a guffaw. "Three noted ex-cons are busy about town putting together a burglar-alarm system," he wrote one day in 1956. "The guy who installs it is an expert-served in three state prisons for a total of twelve...