Word: threads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor provides one of the best examples of a current thread which will reappear in the post-war tapestry. The CIO has been plugging for the creation of industry-labor councils which would give the workers a direct hand in the deciding and executing of company policies. Labor will still be waging a major campaign for these councils long after the next armistice has been signed and sealed...
...William James was born; four years later came Charles Horace. The boys went everywhere with their father. When he performed operations, they were his assistants: Will acted as first assistant while Charlie stood by with needles and thread stuck in his lapels; before he was twelve, Charlie became his father's anesthetist. "We were reared in medicine," Dr. Will once said, "as a farmer boy is reared in farming...
...urge for music and lack of money for an instrument moved Felix, as a boy, to make himself a banjo strung with J. & P. Coats spool thread. A Coats Co. stockholder, flood-bound at the Alley house, was so impressed by this contraption that he sent Felix a fine store banjo and persuaded the company to use a picture of a barefoot, banjo-playing boy as a trademark. At 16 Felix also wrote a ballad, Kidder Cole, which became famous...
...nineties to the ballads that Grandmother used to waltz to--all these have been worked to the hilt; and they've met with consistent success. It was inevitable that somebody should get the notion of using some of the top-notch blues songs of the past as the thread on which to hang another movie. And that's exactly what's been done in Paramount's "The Birth of the Blues...
...mighty hefty thread for a somewhat slim story to hand on, but with the material they had to work with, the producers could probably have filmed a hit if they interspersed glimpses of the Boston telephone directory to sustain the plot interest. Every ditty that horse-and-buggy gramophones ground out is here, from "Tiger Rag" to "After the Ball" and "My Melancholy Baby." With a couple of the screen's best song-pluggers, Mary Martin and Bing Crosby, to do the honors, these old--but not outworn--Hit Paraders pack all the punch, plus a good deal more nostalgia...