Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention this week, he was as self-assured as ever. His backers figured that he had 393 sure convention votes of the 547 needed for nomination. Western Republicans were already warning California's Governor Earl Warren that unless he got off the fence soon, western delegates would swing to Dewey. And Dewey men confidently cited the political dogma that, the more Democratic opposition stiffened, the more professional GOPsters would turn to Tom Dewey as the one man who could carry the Republicans into office. They were confident that, by the time he headed back to Albany, the Dewey strategy...
When it comes to music, U.S. college kids know what they like. In Billboard's ninth annual college poll, out last week, they still preferred sweet to swing, had the same favorite girl singers (Jo Stafford, Dinah Shore, Peggy Lee) and liked the same swing band (Stan Kenton's) as last year. Tommy Dorsey's sweet band was no longer tops (actually he had disbanded it. but it was voted second best anyway). The new favorite: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Among male singers, Bing Crosby lost first place to Frank Sinatra for the first...
...gusty winds, Locke developed a low pitch-and-run shot approaching the greens (most U.S. players take a deep undercut that throws the ball high in the air and stops it dead on the green). His tee shots are medium-long but uncannily straight. His putting ("an easy, relaxed swing with the putter blade square to the ball at the impact ... an easy follow-through in the direction of the ball and pin") is as smooth and precise as Willie Hoppe stroking a billiard ball. "It just takes practice...
This is the report brought back from a seven-month, 36,000-mile swing around the Near and Far East by two top U.S. Jesuits: Missionary-Photographer Father Bernard Hubbard ("The Glacier Priest") and Father Calvert Alexander, onetime reporter for the St. Louis Star-Times and now editor of the monthly Jesuit Missions...
...rope. But the conservative officials of Boston's museum seemed to feel that Benton had captured a vanishing type on canvas. And for once, Tom Benton, who used to complain that an art museum was a graveyard "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait," agreed with the officials. His friend Hough, said Benton, "is a good old New England editor...