Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four months, Kenneth Wolf startled his Cleveland parents, who are both Russian-born lawyers, by speaking a complete sentence. A year and a half later, he toddled over to the family piano, pounded out a tune by Liszt. By the time he was ten, Kenny Wolf had written a dozen pieces of his own, had been asked to leave grammar school because he knew too much...
...year. Like all the others, The Dolly Sisters, which launches George Jessel as a Hollywood producer, has a plot concocted of time-tested staples: the kindly, absent-minded accent (S. K. Sakall); the handsome, threadbare song-plugger (John Payne); the rich, respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only really fresh face belongs to Frank Latimore, who plays Chicago department-store tycoon Irving Netcher (who is Rosie's current, real...
Herb Eckenrath, hailed as the finest passer in college, hooked up with Pete Foley to give the R.O.T.C. team a strong aerial attack, supplemented by a running game sparked by Gene Brannigan, and the dynamic combination exploded to the tune of three touchdowns in the second half...
...wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time . . ." George Frazier wrote the lyrics and Count Basie recorded it, and it wasn't a bad tune. But according to Dorothy Kilgallen, King Features Broadway columnist, Harvard University didn't like "Harvard Blues...
...Paris last week a tribunal of musicians, including Paul Paray, conductor of the Paris Colonne Symphony, Violinist Jacques Thibaud and famed Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, got set to try French musicians who danced to the Nazis' tune...