Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hemisphere's Mr. Big, the U.S. could take whatever line it pleased. But to go on doing so belied a Good Neighbor's concern for neighborly action. Some Latin American diplomats hinted that if the State Department did not change its tune, the "Pan-American system" would go on ice for six years (i.e., as long as Perón was President). The question was how badly the U.S. wants hemispheric unity. For hemispheric unity could not be had without including...
...from ground to aerial. This included station JOAK (Radio Tokyo), whose 150,000-watt transmitter is one of the world's strongest. Out went the untimed, slipshod samisen strumming; the tedious Kodan-storytelling; the poetry on the co-prosperity sphere. In came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian Nights, Aesop's Fables, Edgar Allan...
When the War Labor Board granted Western Union employes a 21% wage raise, the company angrily cried that this would put it into the red-to the tune of $19,000,000 a year. Said WLB coolly: take that up with the Federal Communications Commission...
Perry Como's Till the End of Time (a Tin Pan Alley rewrite of Chopin) was the biggest-selling single record of 1945 (more than 1,000,000 discs). Como versions of another Chopin tune, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, and Dig You Later ("A Hubba, Hubba, Hubba") which has sold over a million records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless...
...hour at a cocktail party thrown by Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr., his naval aide and nominee for the Federal Reserve Board. At week's end he dined at the Statler with the White House Correspondents' Association, and laughed good-naturedly at a skit parodying the tune: I'm Just Wild About Harry...