Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Department building." A minute or so later the car stopped near the building at the corner of the Street of the Prophets. As Middleton, carrying his old-style, drum-fed Tommy gun, climbed out, an excited clerk told him that at 2:10, several men carrying a large tin box had entered the building. They said it was a time bomb and would explode in 20 minutes; then they left...
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Ballet Suite (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Tchaikovsky's romantic overture lent itself to Tin Pan Alley thievery; this does not. Prokofiev makes Miss Capulet and Mr. Montague's troubles far more dissonant and disturbing. Performance: excellent...
Died. Walter Donaldson, 54, Brooklyn-born composer whose Mammy and My Blue Heaven made him one of the brightest of Tin Pan Alley's neon lights; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...creator of this latter day Water Music is a short, jumpy Tin Pan Alleyite named Frank Loesser, who has a remarkable talent for tunes that at first attract and then nauseate. His biggest hit was Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; another song of his, Tallahassee, is climbing on the hit parade...
...Erich was always hungry. His hunger was a gnawing, driving urge that was never stilled. Wandering about the ruins of Berlin, he dug bits of machinery out of ruins, collected scraps of tin and wire-the kind of treasures that boys everywhere collect. Now & then he found something that was useful to an adult. Sometimes he was able to trade his treasures for food-but never enough to still his hunger...