Word: tiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York. This week, with the location of Santa Fe firmly fixed in his mind-he accepted an invitation to join the Santa Fe Opera's advisory committee-Rudi Bing had to cope not only with the Met opening but with a nightmare that made the Santa Fe tiff look peaceful. See MUSIC, Diva Serena...
...last November); of lung cancer; in Manhattan. The Dorsey brothers played in the '20s, developed a soothing, sentimental style of swing that softened the Dixie beat, met swift success (between them they sold more than 110 million records); formed (1934) their own band but broke up in a tiff over tempo. Jimmy rejoined Tommy in 1953, was hard-hit by his brother's death...
...complaint is rolling across the pro-Administration editorial pages. The editors think the budget should be cut, and they are disturbed because Ike will not cut it-but not so disturbed as to suggest any appreciable slippage in the President's newspaper backing. See PRESS, The First Tiff...
...promise of government economy, it is not entirely frank with the people." Across the U.S. last week, Ike-minded newspapers raised voices in the first general criticism since the Eisenhower Administration took office in 1953. The chief cause was the familiar cause of many a marriage's first tiff-money. The predominantly (62%) pro-Eisenhower press was upset over President Eisenhower's $71.8 billion budget, biggest in peacetime history...
...Wild Canaries." The Dorseys riffed through the jazz-dazzled '20s under Bandleaders Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and Rudy Vallee, by 1934 had formed the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra, within a year hit the bigtime of the big-band era. Then Tommy stomped off the bandstand in a tiff over tempo, truculently hired his own band, by the time (1953) he and Jimmy were playing together regularly again, had made a pile of cash ($900,000 a year at one point) and some fine jazz (Opus I, Well Git It) and swing (Song of India, Marie...