Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symphony of a day that will always sing in my heavy heart...
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 36, a jolly, round (270 Ibs.) "git-tar"-strumming balladeer, sang it on the radio, in nightclubs, on records and on Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land!). He made it a hit, and it helped make him one. He called it an "insect song," just one of 350 ballads he had picked up while bumming around the U.S. singing (TIME, July 27, 1942). This month The Blue-Tail Fly turned up in a Burl Ives collection of rediscovered ballads (The Wayfarin' Stranger; Leeds Music Corp., $1). And last week Burl sang it for the movies. Only...
There was no operatic stuffiness in the good-natured, roly-poly Irishman; in 1925 he and Lucrezia Bori were among the first big name singers to go on the air. And in 1929 Fox paid him nearly a half-million dollars to sing eleven songs for a cinematic bit of Irish moonshine called Song O' My Heart. But in 1938 he retired, and only sang twice in public after that. Once was at his son's wedding in 1941. Last year, he started a tour for the British Red Cross, was told by his doctor to stop...
Guards, jabbing them with pointed sticks, made them sing and dance for their amusement, hurled them food - gobs of rice - so that they had to scramble for the grains on the filthy cell floor. Learning that Zamperini was a famous miler, they forced him to compete against healthy Jap runners, bribed him (with food) to stall so the Japs could score a glorious victory...
Scion of "a long line of New Jersey Methodists," J. Bates Upham had emerged from the Spanish-American war as the nation's most dexterous poker player. He had learned to dance like an angel while "working" the Cunarders on the Atlantic run, and had finally emerged from Sing Sing revered as a forger and a gentleman. "I seem naturally," he told Estelle, "to prefer enterprises where a little extra risk may bring a little extra reward." Then he slipped his arm hopefully around her slim waist...