Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinctions about Burma's noninvolvement in the cold war. He was generous in his praise of what he had been shown, but not as a product for export: "There is a Burmese saying, 'Every monastery has its own peculiar incantation, and every village has its own favorite song...
After the war, Walt definitely decided: "We're through with caviar. From now on it's mashed potatoes and gravy." His first four postwar features-Make Mine Music, Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free and Melody Time-looked like mashed potatoes all right, but they didn't bring in much gravy. Disney's next big picture, however, made plenty: Cinderella may eventually outgross Snow White. And though Alice in Wonderland was a flop, Peter Pan was another smash hit. which exchanged Barrie sentiment for Hollywood slapstick and almost made the crocodile the hero...
Died. Lee Morse, 50, blues-singing star of early radio, vocalist for the Blue Grass Boys in the 1920s and '30s, song writer (Shadows on the Wall), sister of Glenn Taylor, former left-wing Democratic U.S. Senator from Idaho; in Rochester...
...Apology. Clutching the yellow paper in his good left hand, McCarthy read what "may be my temporary swan song as chairman." It sounded more like the honk of a winged goose. Said Joe: "Our committee has been held up now for approximately ten months. The President of the U.S. has taken it upon himself to congratulate Senators Flanders*and W'atkins, who have been instrumental in holding up our work ... I should apologize to the American people for what was an unintentional deception upon them. During the Eisenhower campaign I spoke from coast to coast, promising the American people...
...year was the TV "spectacular," the costly, splashy televised conglomerations of high-priced talent. On these shows NBC has staked prestige and resources in the hope of changing the nation's viewing habits. The NBC spectacular that flashed on screens for 90 minutes last week brought song, dance, comedy, Sonja Henie on ice, and the incomparable Jimmy Durante ("Gimme some No-Cal champagne!"). It was the eighth and best of Weaver's big gambles. But it was not final proof that the spectacular, at $200,000 or more apiece, is going to pay off for NBC with...