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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Field. He learned to read music from a few sporadic piano lessons, but most of his knowledge was picked up by listening to records and studying other people's hits. He wrote his first song at 15. At 20, he went to work as a song plugger on Tin Pan Alley -then as now a mythical street on the tattered fringe of Broadway. Hired by Sunbeam Music, Diamond sometimes felt like a tailor, sitting in a tiny cubicle and fitting songs to the needs of assorted Grade B singers. "Gloria wants an up-tempo ballad like that Patti Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tin Pan Tailor | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...political content will win popular recognition, for it is with anti-war demonstrators that Mr. Musiker's tune finally finds its natural home. Mr. Musiker has already rejected offers from snobby, self-consciously cultured salons, from trashy, materialistic Manufacturers o'Hits in Tin Pan Alley and from a neo-Nazi, Klannish organization that values Mr. Musiker more as a body to beat than as a creative artist. Blitzstein's sympathy with war protesters was lost in the only other production of this opera, when it was given in 1937 as a radio play. Censors transmogrified the workers marching...

Author: By Aun Derrickson, | Title: Let the People Sing Out | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

DARTMOUTH-PENN: Ben Franklin never thought this sort of thing would happen in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. When the Indians came, Rusty could call on Rin Tin Tin and the Cavalry, and the Cavalry, and Custer could call on God. But Penn has to call on Pancho Micir, and it's just not the same. Coach Bob Blackman, who said that at practice his players remind him of "a bunch of frisky colts kicking up their heels," need only 94 points to have 300 for the season. Truly a feast for Dartmouth...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 11/21/1970 | See Source »

While some freshmen were banging on mail boxes and tin cans, others complained, tongue-in cheek, about their unruly contemporaries: "I can't get any work done," one shouted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Erupt In Harvard Yard | 11/5/1970 | See Source »

According to the statement, the defoliant was used in both Quang Ngai and Quang Tin provinces, which supports information given to Ridenhour that the spraying was carried out by more than one unit in the division. Thus, Ridenhour believes that the spraying must have been authorized on the divisional level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Agent Orange Affair | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

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