Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the primrose path for their heroines leads inevitably to disaster and thence to New Understanding, the passion pulps themselves are making a heap of tin out of sin. In the last ten years, while the magazine ranks have been riddled by casualties, only two confessional slicks have gone under. Though their combined circulation has fallen to only half the Korean war peak, the fall-off has stopped and today the 24 monthly and quarterly romance-mongers (top price: 25?) enjoy a steady circulation of more than 10 million. In the 38 years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love...
Nobody could deny that Indonesia's government needs some kind of rejuvenation. Large chunks of Sumatra. Indonesia's richest island, have been in open revolt. Deprived of much of the revenue from Sumatra's exports (oil, tin and rubber), the central government has been forced to issue an emergency decree lowering the legal ratio of gold to paper currency from 20% to 15%. For nearly three months the crumbling Cabinet of hapless Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo has clung to office largely on Sukarno's insistence...
Died. Kate Rockwell Matson ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 77, convent-educated hoofer who rode the crest of the Yukon gold rush as the best known of Dawson City's dance-hall dolls, wore a $1,500 dress and a tin-can tiara lit with candles as she coaxed slow pokes with high kicks, helped the boys whoop it up at $15 a pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough...
...sooner was the idea uttered than it raced like a hungry cat down Tin Pan Alley, stopped at the door of a prodigious composer named Irving Caesar, creator of such pop tunes as Tea for Two and Is It True What They Say About Dixie? Composer Caesar is no stranger to tax songs. In 1946 he turned out a children's tune called Tommy Tax ("Who pays our smiling Postman/ For toting heavy sacks? Who-oo You-oo/ And little Tommy Tax"), and was eager to write another. In a flash Tunesmith Caesar shipped off to IRS a high...
Ever since the flare-up in Hungary, trim-whiskered Walter Ulbricht, Communist boss of East Germany, has been like a cat on the hot tin roof of satellite unrest. Two weeks ago the jumpy Ulbricht, unable to stand the heat any longer, alerted the Communist fire department. In a speech before the East German Socialist Unity (Communist) Party Central Committee, he detailed a nefarious plot to overthrow the regime, and named as the chief incendiary a youthful (34) professor and editor named Wolfgang Harich. It was the first time that Ulbricht has acknowledged renewed trouble in East Germany...