Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remembering the above, I fail to understand why you would run the story "Bluenoses" (Feb. 22), in which you refer to Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson as "obstreperous...
...Amos 'n' Andy's 1939 audience (estimate: 40,000,000 weekly). Their latest Crossley rating is surpassed by about 60 nighttime programs. Even so, Campbell Soup was willing to continue them on a half-hour one-night-a-week basis. But "the boys," as they refer to themselves, were unwilling to swap programs in midseason...
...Consonance and dissonance (whose technical explanation is lengthy) are not to be confused with what laymen generally refer to as "harmony" and "discord." The combinations ordinarily called "harmony" include both consonances and dissonances...
...five years, under the good-natured, timid leadership of Conductor Barbirolli, it acted like a willful nag without a rider. When the directors supplemented Conductor Barbirolli with a string of famous guest conductors, the orchestra became more balky and independent than ever. The visiting conductors began to refer to its undisciplined and arrogant members as "the Dead End Kids." Meanwhile, one-man orchestras like Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony and Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony continued to take top honors. This year even the Philharmonic's board got around to thinking that the Philharmonic probably needed...
...cold sweat last week. Said a terse X & B. report on a man he was about to promote: "This man has held several responsible jobs. His habits are good. But ie is of German extraction and his loyalty is questioned. His closest associates refer to him as 'the Nazi.' " Last week, thanks to D. & B., "the Nazi's" days in Washington were numbered...