Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perry G. E. Miller and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professors of American Literature and History, respectively, both conceded that Davy was a brave "Injun fighter" and "b'ar hunter," as the popular song claims. But as a Congressman, they said, Crockett was a willing stooge used by the Whig Party to counter the popular appeal of the Democrats' Andrew Jackson...
...been hit with a golden ax. Flame-haired Songstress Marion Marlowe drew a fast $36,000 bid from Ed (Toast of the Town) Sullivan, also of CBS, who is always eager to snap up his rival's discarded aces; The Mariners, a Negro-white quartet (their last song for Godfrey: I Didn't Come to Say Hello, I Came to Say Good-Bye), also got a Sullivan offer plus a flood of nightclub bookings. But Hawaiian Singer-Hula Dancer Haleloke, a longtime Godfrey fixture, was so upset that she took to her bed. As for the writers, Godfrey...
CHILDREN OF THE BLACK-HAIRED PEOPLE (435 pp.) - Evan King - Rinehart($5). THE RICE-SPROUT SONG (182 pp.)-Eileen Chang-Scribner...
...throughout the week revamping its musical revue, I returned last night to Great to Be Back! It was one of my wiser decisions. The truly atrocious spots which earlier had marked the production have been shuffled off the stage: the opening half-hour is now a pleasing burst of song, not a dirge; and the cumbersome sketches have been pared to size. Through their expert cutting and repasting, Gross-Charnas-Weller have produced a musical of well-paced comedy and song. Great to Be Back! has become possible to enjoy and possible to recommend...
...popular song of the 1920's had been "My God, How the Money Rolls In." After 1929, "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" and "Sing Me a Song of Social Significance" took its place. When the economic system collapsed before those who had criticized it during the 1920's, they needed only a reasonable alternative to alienate themselves from it. They were convinced that something must be done. Seven million college-age young people were unemployed. Teachers were being fired; low salaries were being cut still further. Capitalism seemed on the rocks. And it appeared that only the Communist party...