Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to sing a song in ... my outfit ("The Fighting 69th") which summed up the men's feeling about the overpublicized Marines...
...Hecht thinks there is a future for writers on TV: "It's a sort of wondrous version of the medicine show. You do a dance, sing a bird song, and then you pitch the snake oil. But the important thing is that it is not the entertainment that the sponsor is selling, but the snake oil or the beer. Just as long as his beer sells-which might be because it's a hot summer-he will let the writer have the upper hand...
...visual recordings show that most birds' songs are not intended for clumsy human ears. A few of them (e.g., the songs of whippoorwills and song sparrows) can be heard complete, but others contain many parts that are too high-pitched. When heard by human ears, the golden crowned kinglet's song, for instance, must be a pale shadow of what it sounds like to another golden crowned kinglet, which can appreciate all of its highest notes...
...Sweet Song. Crosby himself, who says he has "very little voice," has an almost coyly commonplace explanation for his success: "Every man who sees one of my movies, or who listens to my records, or who hears me on the radio, believes firmly that he sings as well as I do, especially when he's in the bathroom shower...
...recent years Bing has made fewer films, and has scarcely made a pass at TV. The old pipes don't give quite the same old sweet song. But Baritone Crosby is doing all right. His contract at Paramount has seven years to run. He grosses better than $175,000 a picture; record royalties bring in a steady $150,000 a year or more. He also has a million or so in real estate, shares in a profitable frozen-juice business, owns a 25,000-acre ranch near Elko, Nev. And if all else should fail, "the income from...