Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Russia used veto power to keep the Big Four from arriving at unity, she played 'another tune in her direct dealings with Germans. The Russians not only permitted Germany's right-of-center Christian Democratic Union Party to hold a meeting in Berlin; Marshal Sokolovsky held a lavish reception for the delegates. (They came from all over Germany except the French zone, where permission to attend was refused.) Russian Information Control Chief, Colonel Serge Tulpa-nov (who, like most Russian occupation officers, but unlike most Americans, speaks German fluently), said: "We Russians desire a unified and strong...
...mussed. The trick was to arrive in a town at 7 p.m., get your dress pressed and your hair fixed, and look fresh by 9 p.m. She thinks the training was tough but good: "If you can sing on one-night stands into bad microphones to out-of-tune pianos you can sing any place...
...People tune in dance bands to listen to music, not to be annoyed by gibberish from an announcer who is not prepared, either in script or in wit, to be amusing," he wrote. (What's more: no more gratuitous comment from bandleaders. Said Bulotti: "It sounds ridiculous to have bandleaders commenting on world affairs, politics and the Russian situation.") He also ordered "all yelling and whistling at the opening and the closing" of Mutual broadcasts to be stopped pronto. "It [makes] the ballroom . . . sound like a noisy saloon filled with bawdy characters intent on drowning out the music...
...hear the results next Tuesday evening. My guess is that a great many of you will want to tune in - if the multitude of letters and cash contributions for world famine we have received from you is any indication. Incidentally, the relief agencies we sent your contributions to have expressed their gratitude for the help you have given them...
...earned his huge salary (in 1939, $469,000, highest in the U.S. outside Hollywood) by boosting Lever sales from less than $1,000,000 in 1913 to $250,000,000 last year. But now Countway, old (69) and ill, was ready to let Chuck Luckman play the tune...