Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tin Pan Alley was becoming a deadend street. More new songs were being published, played and plugged than ever before-but four of last week's top ten songs on Billboard's hit parade were at least 16 years...
...cage captain Saul V. Mariaschin '46 is now roaming the pavement of Tin Pan Alley instead of the hardwood of the Indoor Athletic Building--in the hope that turning out popular songs will turn enough dollars for the long pull through Law School...
...give in for tin...
...most Tin Pan Alley wordsmiths, the earnest philosophizing behind these lines would look like a Supreme Court justice's robes on a race-track tout. On Hammerstein, who has the stature for it, it doesn't look...
...sting of the conjecture is mitigated by Clark's shenanigans, proceeding, as he does, to make the Victor Herbert musical noteworthy indeed. The stumpy comic with the skin-tight specs and vaudeville mannerisms compensates for the shortcomings of the rewritten plot, and should satisfy all but those with tin ears and antediluvian morals...