Word: sandman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sandman. In Ashiya, Japan, a ten-day crackdown on horn blowing was so successful that the only traffic accident during the period involved a driver who fell asleep at the wheel...
Large stretches of The Makioka Sisters are dull enough to make U.S. readers wonder if they are not in the hands of the Japanese sandman. Yet Junichiro Tanizaki, 71, is one of Japan's leading novelists, and this book, written a decade ago, is a neat compendium of what is best and worst in contemporary Japanese writing. Esoteric discussions of Tokyo v. Osaka folkways lead imperceptibly to the dramatic outer and inner conflict of a Japan in transition. The core of meaning, which the Westerner will perhaps find hard to penetrate, is the concept of a heroism that never...
...capital's need for a civic auditorium, Alabamian Bankhead gave her blessing to the project, but begged off from appearing in a Valentine message to "Darling Congressman Boykin." Scrawled she: "Ten a.m. is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill, two of the Hill's key prominences went to her. Backstage at the National Theater, after one of her romps through a week's run of the bawdy drawing-room comedy Dear Charles, Tallulah, drowning out the wee, piping yips...
Topping last week's bestseller list was Mr. Sandman (Cadence), featuring the piping voices of the Chordettes, beginning with chime effects ("bum, bum, bum, bum") and paced by the clip-clop sounds of Archie Bleyer slapping his knees. Sample Mr. Sandman lyric: "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci, and lots of wavy hair like Liberace." No. 4 bestseller: Teach Me Tonight (Abbott), with the DeCastro Sisters in a twangy, eagerly enunciated request for seduction. The melody is in the contralto, while the other girls warble country-alto above. No. 11 but climbing fast: The Naughty Lady of Shady...
...Sandman. The son of an immigrant suspenders maker in Chicago, Crown quit school at 14 to take a job at $4 a week as shipping clerk for a building materials company. He was fired when he mixed up orders, not knowing that it takes both sand and gravel to make concrete. At 23, after several other jobs, he and two brothers started a materials supply company of their own with a borrowed...