Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Familiar to song and story down the ages is the wastrel scion of a fortune-making family. Minot Jelke does not quite fit the type. In him, the entrepreneurial strain that made millions out of oleomargarine for his grandfather had not quite died out. Mickey, who stood to inherit $3,000,000 by the time he reached 30 and whose mother supplied him with ample cash, was not content to be a plain young rake; ambition led him to capitalize his vices in pimpery...
Sometimes, said Nehru, he reads in foreign newspapers that "I am inclined this way-or that"-in the cold war. "The world must realize that I am an Indian, and I am inclined only towards India." The best guess was that Nehru was just practicing the Song of India he intends to croon at the mid-April conference of Asian-African leaders at Bandung, Indonesia, where he must share top billing with that old spotlight-stealer, Red China's Chou Enlai. Nehru's ambition is to establish an "area of peace" around the Indian Ocean. Taking Chou...
...quick survey in the hinterlands showed that Diem's nationalist regime could count on the electoral support of no more than a fourth of the villages. The rest leaned for Communism, or at least leaned against the unknown, unproved regime in Saigon. But by last week, the song of surrender was fainter and there were many who had ceased to sing it. A fresh survey showed that Premier Ngo Dinh Diem's nationalists are picking up, that they now stand about 50-50 with the Communists in the minds of the people of South Viet Nam. They...
...This Song Is for the Bird's (Spike Jones; Victor). "There are songs for people, and songs for dogs, and songs for monkeys and even for frogs," sings the Jones quartet irreverently, but T.S.I.-F.T.B...
...drama about a thirtyish spinster who gets her last chance at a sad-eyed, vintage bachelor (Edward Andrews). Their hesitant, tongue-tied courtship contained perhaps too many pregnant pauses and awkward gropings for words, but even though the drama bore a considerable resemblance to Paddy Chayefsky's Holiday Song of several years ago, it achieved the agonizing ache and flowering fulfillment of the loveless who finally find love...