Word: retread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boyington soon had learned to regret his impulse. The pay that had seemed so attractive-$675 a month, plus $500 for each Japanese plane-bought familiar pleasures: whisky and women. But though the Tigers were all technically civilians, Greg found himself jousting with superiors again. There was the old, retread captain who turned the boys out for a military muster every morning, and the group adjutant in Toungoo who threatened so many of his men with so many courts-martial that Boyington suspected "he must have been at least one jump ahead of a few himself in his military days...
Orff: Der Mond (Rudolf Christ, Hans Hotter, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Helmut Graml, Paul Kuèn, Peter Lagger; the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; Angel, 2 LPs). German Composer Carl Orff's second opera (1938) is a modern retread of the Grimm fairy tale about four villagers who steal the moon from neighbors, carry it to their graves, finally lose it to St. Peter, who hangs it in the sky to light "the men who still wait in the little garden of the earth." The fragmented, intermittently lyrical score contains snatches of gutbucket jazz and such...
Wrinkles & Old Age. In new faces, fresh ideas or creative talent, the season has little to show so far. The only major new star is a personable retread named Jack Paar (TIME, Oct. 28), the gentlemanly comic who rescued NBC's Tonight from the junk heap. Studio One produced The Deaf Heart (TIME. Nov. 4), a striking first script by a highly promising 29-year-old playwright named Mayo Simon, but nobody seems to know whether he can ride or shoot. Of the new situation comedies, only Leave It to Beaver (see below) has taken fire. Among minor...
Waiting for the Blowout. Harriman's partisans look upon Stevenson as a political retread, done over from 1952, and they are watching and waiting and predicting the day the retread wears thin and blows out. Their campaign strategy is based on the hope that Democratic leaders next spring will come to believe that they have on their hands a tired figure that has lost as much of the old luster and appeal as Wendell Willkie had lost by 1944. An important Harriman supporter says of the 1952 nominee: "He hasn't made a good speech since early...
...deals he had in the works. First, Frankie and NBC abruptly called off their parleys about the network's lavish five-year contract offer of about $3,000,000 for his TV services. Then, he walked off the Maine location where he was to star in the movie retread of the musical Carousel. His excuse: production complications would have barred him from keeping a singing date in a Las Vegas pleasure dome next week. In Rome, meanwhile, one of Frankie's most voluptuous girl friends tolled a bell for him. Asked if romance had bloomed between...