Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alben Barkley, with a stuffy nose and a racking cough, presided over the Senate in the old Supreme Court chamber* where there is barely room to swing a cat. Occasionally, he tapped for order with the tiny blob of ivory that serves as his gavel...
Last week, with the test records rerecorded by Columbia (4 sides LP), jazz fans could stomp to the music of the landmark night nearly 13 years ago when Manhattan's dignified Carnegie Hall rocked to the first "swing" concert in its history (TIME, Jan. 24, 1938). Columbia, confident that the title will be self-explanatory, has called the recording The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert...
...Associated Press Managing Editors' Association agreed almost unanimously at their Atlanta convention last week (see PRESS). Polled as to their explanations of the trend, most of the editors gave psychological insecurity as the chief cause, with war a close second. But at least three credited the swing to the aggressiveness of religious groups...
Henry M. Silveira '51, president of the present Student Council agrees with the 1947 minority. "If the council is entirely elective," he insists, "we don't get all the best people." The new constitution, which obligates the group to appoint from four to six members, reflects a slight swing away from the predominant 1947 point of view. It enables the council to add to its ranks men who will be free from politics and who, though worthy, may have failed to win in elections...
...Voluntary Defenders are now operating in full swing. They have permission to enter court, but actually do so in a small percentage of their cases. Lawyers from the Boston committee take them to such cases as will give experience to the students, where they can ask questions and learn procedure. Often they make the pleas in the District Court of Boston...