Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the offices of U.S. newspapers flows an average of 80,000 words of foreign news a day. Most of it ends up on the spike; U.S. dailies use only an average of a little more than four columns (i.e., 3,200 words) of foreign news a day. Why does foreign news get so little space? How good is foreign coverage? How do foreign papers themselves handle the news of other countries? To answer these questions, the International Press Institute this week published a 266-page report titled The Flow of the News, the most ambitious survey ever conducted...
Chest-Beater. The result was not, as might be expected, a kind of Spike Jones pandemonium, but gently exuberant, whimsical and thoroughly disciplined. Eddie Sauter and his partner Bill Finegan are running the most original band heard in the U.S. in years...
...again, by the time you have read this column, you may have decided to conform. Don't let us disappoint you. Our tips may be more effective when teamed with this year's string-bean lines. Yet they'll certainly spike any old lore in the closet...
Lonesome and Sorry (Bernie Green's Orchestra; Victor). Green, a sort of highbrow Spike Jones, has a lot of fun with tuba solos, banjo, chimes, etc. in a tear-jerking oldtimer...
...Went to Your Wedding (Spike Jones; Victor). Spike lowers the boom on this one, and about time, with an outrageous vocal by "Sir Fredric Gas." Fun for a while...