Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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June. Paul Tillich will turn down the presidency of Harvard to become a speech writer for Billy Graham. The Board of Overseers will deny plans for an eighth house while construction proceeds. The Lowell House bells will play Professor Piston's arrangement of "Sixteen Tons." Polly Adler will deny that there is a new house at Harvard. Liberace will volunteer to lecture at Harvard, claiming "I'm sure they'll love...
...smoke of parliamentary battle rose above New York's East River last week, sixteen new flags became visible on the United Nations Plaza. Despite the earnest efforts of the United States, Japan's was not among them. Communist China's flag did not appear either, but East Side rumor has it that U.N. gardeners have already dug the hole to accommodate Peiping's flagpole by this time next year. When Mao Tsc Tung's regime does enter the UN, Secretary of State Dulles may very well have to find a hold of his own to crawl into. Senator Knowland...
...purists, it is not really a folk song if it gets "mechanical reiteration" instead of being passed by mouth from generation to generation. But no American song in many a generation has got as much reiteration in such a short time, mechanical or otherwise, as Sixteen Tons...
When Travis decided to record some coal miners' songs in 1947, there were hardly any to be found, so he wrote some-including Sixteen Tons. It was recorded for Capitol recently by deep-voiced Tennessee Ernie Ford, and leaped to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made. It has a driving beat, like the cars clanking to and from the underground yard, and its words carry a kind of homey cynicism: You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...
Produced by Adams House, the Euripides play features original Greek music, and a gigantic set, sixteen feet high and thirty-seven feet across, which will be set on the Sanders stage. The production will be the first Greek drama set in the coliseum manner since 1916, when the classics club played in the stadium...