Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following the N.C.A.A. meetings, Bolles will head farther west to speak to Harvard Clubs. Lloyd Jordan, football coach, left Cambridge over the weekend for his swing through Harvard Clubs across the nation...
...picture boss and advertising director. Oxford-educated Chairman King is no socialist, but no Tory either. He was one of Mister Bart's chief executives in the mid-30's when the Mirror swung from a right-wing position into the socialist camp. But now a new swing is starting. Said King: "There'll be no change noticeably in either the layout or the politics of the paper. But the Mirror must move with the times or come to a sticky end." Since the times in Britain had moved right, it looked as if the Mirror would...
...Lodge married Emily Sears, daughter of a wealthy Beacon Street physician, and settled down to a newspaper apprenticeship. He covered the Coolidge Commission's "restoration of orderly government" in Nicaragua for the New York Herald Tribune, attended the London Naval Conference, and rounded out his experience with a swing around the world "to observe the different methods of government" in colonial areas. Then, at 30, he was ready for politics. In 1932, he ran for the Massachusetts state legislature and won. Four years later after putting through 20 labor bills (mostly on workmen's compensation), the youthful Lodge...
...become a musician"), but he managed to work up one piece for violin called Melody in A Major, which Fritz Kreisler started playing, made into a concert hit in the early 1900s. In the '40s, Dawes' Melody, as the trade called it, was picked up and recorded, swing-style, by Tommy Dorsey and a few other bandleaders. But like most pop recordings, it soon lost its hold, and finally disappeared from the record catalogues...
...mother took her to New York, and there they went to see a voice teacher named William Herman. Teacher Herman listened to Pat, looked her over once, then summed her up like a judge at a stock show: "Wide face, straight back, well-developed torso, flexible figure, great thoracic swing, long tongue, high-arched palate, proportion of vocal cords to resonators almost ideal." Then he sat her down for some hard words...