Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heikkila has faced a deportation order for over a year, due to admitted Communist Party membership in this country from 1929 to 1939. For months he forestalled execution of the order via a series of court maneuvers. Last week Lieut. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, Commissioner of Immigration, took advantage of an interim between sessions to arrest and deport Heikkila--without notifying the Finn's wife or his lawyer, and in defiance of a federal court order...
...soon as Heikkila had arrived in Finland--suitcase-less and clad in a summer suit--Gen. Swing, faced with a contempt citation, ordered him to be flown back...
...Swing into Spring: "Benny," said Host Dave Garroway to King of Swing Goodman, "have you any idea how many couples met, danced, fell in love and got married, all because of you?" Fumbling for a figure, Benny Goodman at length replied: "1,327,463." After that improbable exchange, NBC valiantly set out to prove that swing not only scintillates on TV but is newer, "bigger and better" than ever. Visually tricked out with color, old-fashioned microphones and vignettes of young love (a car radio in a moonlit convertible of the '30s), Swing swung down the nostalgic side...
Swedish Modern Jazz (Arne Domnerus and His Group; RCA Camden). The Swedes swing lightly and flexibly through Topsy Theme, Gone With the Wind and other numbers with the air of men with their hearts in their horns, but in their cooler moments (Relax, Blue Moon) they sometimes seem about to fade off the record. Alto Saxophonist Domnerus wanders through some seamless lyric flights translated from Charlie Parker's and Benny Carter's books...
With the exception of making credit easier, the Administration's antirecession measures have principally been couched in terms of plans of things to come, and will probably not be in full swing until the end of 1958. Behind the plans lie the implicit promise that the policymakers do not intend to let things get worse. But behind the promise lies the persistent hope of the President's economic advisers -backed up, according to persistent report, by the long-distance voice of ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey-that the economy is really healthier than it looks and should begin...