Word: trippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away, if the necessary funds (about $1,250,000) were forthcoming. U. S. rocketeers, a more conservative crowd than their fellow dreamers across the sea, had their hair raised last week when they read, in the latest B. I. S. Journal, an article entitled "The Payload on the Lunar Trip." This juicily detailed the equipment to be taken on the first lunar voyage, sounded as though the takeoff were scheduled for next week. Excerpts...
...chef as well as a recipe. One For The Money makes an endurable evening because it always seems to be going somewhere; but it never arrives. The best sketches-satires on Eleanor Roosevelt, parlor games, rabid Wagnerians-are full of fun but not really funny. The best lyrics trip off the tongue but do not lodge in the mind. The performers are gay and bright but, except for Author Hamilton and Brenda Forbes, have no more individuality than a buck private's uniform...
...Roosevelt at the White House. Ensued some joking about a mutual interest of the President and the prelate-deep-sea fishing. Then, with the blessings of the White House and the U. S. State Department, Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy departed on a four-week, 18,000-mile airplane trip around South America (TIME...
...Naziism is unpopular in South America, although the Nazis are propagandizing hard. Dr. Goebbels' paper Der Angriff recognized Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy as adversaries, called them "paid propagandists" of President Roosevelt. The two planned the trip themselves and represented nobody but themselves. They recommended strongly, however, that U. S. press and radio services to South America be improved. The Nazis give the South American press a free news service in Spanish and Portuguese, which misrepresents U. S. happenings, and Nazi broadcasts consistently drown out U. S. programs. As Father Sheehy discovered after giving six NBC and CBS broadcasts...
Three years ago on a trip to Chicago, British Band-Leader Jack Hylton took with him a slight-framed pianist named Alec Templeton. Pianist Templeton was blind, but he had large, sensitive ears. Chicago listeners were amazed at his uncanny versatility. He could ripple through a Mozart concerto with thorough orthodoxy, and next minute go to town in a jammed-up version of The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round. Not only could he swing Bach, he could Bach swing. He could improvise in the style of any classical composer, aid get such a good likeness that most listeners...