Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy of a local radio station. "Grab a hunk of sky," mouths Marshal Matt Dillon from the TV screen. "Ghur sao chiu tin" rasps radio's Cantonese cowpoke...
...pictures by W. T. Cummings; Whittlesey House; $3.25) is as American as Our Town. Esta Maude Hay is a spinster schoolteacher who lives in a rickety house on the edge of town, with two cats, a goldfish and a parrot. She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine." But Esta Maude has a flaming secret vice, a racy, sin-red sports car that she drives like the wind of a Friday midnight. Author-Illustrator Cummings manages to be folksy, foxy, and covertly Freudian all at the same time...
...depressed demand, and prices have tumbled with unhappy results. Although the bank did not specify them, there are abundant examples to prove its point. The 11?-per-lb. drop in coffee prices in 1957 cost Colombia $25 million-more than its annual education budget. In 1958, when Russia dumped tin, Bolivia's quota was cut 31% by the International Tin Council; Bolivia lost $20 million, almost canceling...
...last week began like a summer shivaree. Delegates pinned on badges, pumped hands, paraded conga-fashion through the Deauville Hotel lobby behind a red-coated jazz band. They packed hotel dining rooms in the early evening and took their trade to Collins Avenue strip joints as the night sluiced tin. They crowded into the Miami Beach exhibition hall for a $25,000 one-night Teamster spectacular, featuring George Gobel, Mimi Benzell and ten chorus girls. They had a wonderful time. And they were...
...Harvard graduate, Composer Anderson started out with more classical ambitions, built his reputation as a "Tin Pan longhair" only after a nine-year stretch writing arrangements for the Boston Pops Orchestra. He turns out about three of his capsule compositions each year, numbers such as Blue Tango, Trumpeter's Lullaby, Sand Paper Ballet. (He also wrote the music for one Broadway musical-Goldilocks.) His method of composition is as surprising as his success: "There's nothing like getting a good title," says he, "and working backwards...