Word: rock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus went I've Got the Tune, written and composed for Columbia's Workshop by Marc Blitzstein, whose The Cradle Will Rock rocked the WPA Federal Theatre in Manhattan last spring (TIME, June 28), will be put on Broadway this fall on a number of Sunday nights. I've Got the Tune, with Composer Blitzstein singing the role of Mr. Musiker, was his and the Workshop's first venture in radio operetta. For some listeners, Blitzstein's mocking libretto was not without class-conscious implications, even his wiry-muscled music suggesting the notion voiced...
...Mainliner" was piloted by a veteran "million-miler" with eight years' experience, most of it on the Cheyenne-Salt Lake City run, noted as a high altitude flyer, a cautious follower of radio instructions, who carefully kept to the right of his radio track. The airliner passed Rock Springs on time at 8:16 p.m., flying normally at 180 m.p.h. Two days later it was found 17 miles off its course-to the left-wrecked on a snowcovered side of a mountain (see cut), both engines and 18 occupants flung far ahead of the ship, Only one passenger tangled...
...record for the same period stood at four airliner crashes, 33 deaths. One morning last week United Air Lines Flight No. i took off from Newark for Oakland, Calif. - an 18-hour, 2,600-mile journey. Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, where passengers changed to a 21-passenger Douglas DC3, and Rock Springs, Wyo. slid by below. A few miles farther along, skimming the mountains at 10,000 ft., veteran Pilot Earl Woodgerd reported clouds but "OK." It was 8:19 p. m. with the ship about 140 miles northeast of its next stop, Salt Lake City. Then for twelve hours there...
...rare minerals, auto-fagastite and bandylite, were discovered by a joint expedition of Harvard and Smithsonian Institution geologists and have just been added to the list of about 1200 rock components, it was announced here...
...complicated mystery story about an (East) Indian who wants to lose a priceless diamond. The story deals with a reformed male crook and an unreformed female crook who succeed in falling in love with each other through their mutual efforts to keep just a plain crook from stealing the rock...