Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ISRAEL Swing to the Right
...Labor) Party was urged to form a stable, powerful cabinet with the free-enterprising General Zionists (Israel's No. 2 party). B-G cried "heresy." Never, said he, could his democratic, planned-economy socialists unite with such exploiters. Privately, B-G had another concern. He feared that a swing to the right might push his idealistic, youthful Mapainiks to the left and into the arms of the uncompromisingly Marxist Mapam Party...
...Kingdom of Swing (Benny Goodman, his orchestra and combos; Columbia, 6 LPs). Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, his more recently released Jazz Concert No. 2 and two recordsful of other reissues, boxed for the carriage trade. Price...
...King of Swing has changed his tune. What Benny Goodman blows nowadays is apt to come out classical and strictly correct. He does his sleeping at night, and every day he practices from three to six hours. "If you get out of practice," Benny explains, mopping his brow, "you lose your lip. It's a physical kind of thing. You gotta be in shape even to just stand there and have this thing hung onto ya." After practice Benny relaxes by the fire in his Connecticut country home, sipping coffee sweetened with saccharin. At 43 he still looks like...
...Swing to Bridges. In Washington, hardly anyone thought that Taft would oppose confirmation of Durkin, and no one thought that the Senate would refuse to confirm him.* The Ohio Senator's colleagues in Congress failed to provide any choral background for his solo. Vermont's Senator George D. Aiken, who will rank next to Chairman Taft on the Labor Committee, thought it was "wise to recognize organized labor in the Cabinet." Several Taft-minded Senators, e.g., Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, swung behind New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, rather than Taft, for Majority Leader...