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Word: tins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composer of these lines for the Hasty Pudding Show, "The Fattest Calf," given 41 years ago, was not destined to be a run of the mill Tin Pan Alley hack; in fact, these were probably the last musical lyrics he ever wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Herter Led Active Undergraduate Life | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...riding outfits. Stuffed animals, especially the big ones, are selling better than ever. They range from a Teddy Bear in Borgana fur to a hound dog inspired by Elvis Presley, and Steiff's life-size reindeer ($250). For the military minded, hot sellers are Marx's "Rin-tin-tin Fort Apache" and "Captain Gallant" ($6 apiece) and, among games, Parker Brothers' "Scoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Electronic Age of Toys | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Christmas time, with the private motorist the first to suffer from it. Some industries dependent on oil are making plans to convert to coal, which will in turn bring up the problem of getting more coal. Steet production and its offspring, shipbuilding, will soon feel the pinch. Supplies of tin, rubber, wool and tea, all normally shipped through Suez, will inevitably decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Austerity Again | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...York: Long run New York plays tonight include "Antie Mame" with Rosalind Russell at the Broadhurst Theatre, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Morosco, and "Inherit the Wind" with Paul Muni at the Morosco. Gwen Verdon gyrates through "Damn Yankees" on the stage of the 46th Street Theatre, and Frederic March and Florence Eldridge star in Eugene O'Neill's posthumous "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Helen Hayes. Two Shavian comedies, "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer and "The Apple Cart" continue at the Mark Hellinger and the Plymouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Town | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

...future save the public ear from being so painfully chewed by Hollywood's more persistent ego beavers. He has written a "biopic" without a bio. The heroes of this latest vanity film are Lew Brown, Ray Henderson and the late Buddy de Sylva, the well-known Tin Pan Alley team of the '203. But the story is the story of three other guys: O'Hara just made it up. Furthermore, he made it (with the help of William Bowers and Phoebe Ephron) into pretty much the sort of simpleminded, dimple-kneed doohickey a musicomedy book should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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