Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Grable looks nice, sings a little, and wiggles ecstatically. Alice Faye looks tired, sings a little too much, and wriggles epileptically. Together, as the song-plugging Blane sisters, they leave the audience nearly as indifferent as leading man John Payne, who wanders through "Tin Pan Alley" as if he had taken a wrong turn and arrived there by mistake--which isn't far from the truth. The tunes, featuring "K-K-K-Katie" and the great grandmother of "God Bless America" make B.M.I.'s current cacophony sound like the music of the spheres. And a kaleidoscopic flashback on World...
...Jellifies had little money, used in genuity instead. When famed Negro Actor Charles Gilpin gave them $50 to start a Negro theatre, they launched the Gilpin Players in a converted poolroom. They made spotlights of tin cans, tapestries of burlap, seats of secondhand pews. They started other groups painting, etching, dancing, singing, composing, band-playing, glazing pottery. One day a 14-year-old boy named Zell Ingram, having learned puppet-making in Karamu House, decided to see the world. He bought an old Ford, converted its rumble seat into a stage, paid his way to Manhattan and back by giving...
...many a critic of Tin Pan Alley, the bright side of B. M. I.-ASCAP bickering was the hope that disheartened common listeners might turn to serious music. More than offsetting this Ivory Tower optimism was the gloom of advertisers. Uncertain how the public was taking it all, they hoped their goods would not stagnate on their shelves. If that hope isn't realized, the war may end abruptly, since money will talk no matter what radio wants to sing...
...simplest German incendiaries weigh about two pounds and are filled with thermite. There are four methods of putting them out. The first method is to smother them with the tin tops of garbage cans. But there are seldom enough covers for all the bombs, so everybody is now familiar with the second method, which is to smother them with sand and then spray them with a hand pump attached to a water bucket. A third fairly effective method for whiskey drinkers is to spray the bomb with a soda-water siphon. Fourth and most dangerous method, about to be demonstrated...
...Thayerville Steel Mills, a corporation located in the "state of Langdell," was charged by the N. L. R. B. with violating the Wagner Act, by discouraging membership in the "Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers of North America...