Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midnite at Eddie Condon's" and "Inside on the Outside" clarinetist Ed Hall pulling for the old timers and Charley Shavers for the new-have a seesaw tug of war over a weird New Orleans type of riff intricately decorated by Dave Tough's exotic drumming. Joe Sullivan's piano solo on the second chorus of "Honey Suckle Rose" is an imaginative recollection of Fats Waller and "Wild Bill" ploughs a safe and sane path through the final chorus of "Sentimental Baby." It almost sounds as if, God forbid, he was reading it off a score, there...
...Price Board closeted itself for the big decision the U.S. waited, wondered if the seesaw of wages and prices would ever stop...
Last week in Boston, the New England Council of Optometrists looked at a new type of lens which might eliminate these difficulties. Manhattan Eyeman Dr. William Feinbloom had developed a plastic, nonbreakable lens which rocks seesaw fashion with the motion of the eye, thus forestalls cornea irritation. The new lens is available in a dozen stock models, can be fitted to any eye in a few minutes, costs $100 less than the old type...
...Seesaw. Sumner Welles's doctrine of nonintervention and mutual consultation on hemispheric problems was the heart of the Good Neighbor policy. During his long reign as Under Secretary of State (1937-1943), he did very little for democracy within Latin American nations, but he did a great deal for democracy between them...
Sitting pretty on Broadway was Play wright John van Druten, with two smash hits (The Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama}. Sitting prettier were Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with two smash musicals (Oklahoma!, Carousel)-and the producers' haul from Mama. On a seesaw were Broadway's two gaudiest impresarios: Mike Todd aground, his pockets heavy from Up in Central Park] Billy Rose aloft, his pockets light from The Seven Lively Arts. Still spry, Life With Father beat the record of Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances), had only Tobacco Road...