Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call was for another tune. Whether it turned out to be the Internationale or a song of Chinese composition, Prince Humpty-Dumpty was hardly the man to render it. Too much singing for the Japanese had cracked his voice...
...jukebox and hit-parade tune last week was Lyricist Johnny Mercer's On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - from the railroad of the same name. Written two years ago for M.G.M.'s yet unreleased The Harvey Girls, the song began catching on a month ago, became one of the quickest hits in the history of the U.S. music business. Sheet-music sales to date...
...spent 87 minutes talking with China's Premier Dr. T. V. Soong. And then Jack Benny came in and cracked that if he had not known the President was so busy he would have brought his violin and played a tune. Reported pleased Comedian Benny: the President laughed -"he's a swell...
...cheered. Then they sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. This was too much for veteran Laborite backbencher George Griffith. He burst into the Red Flag. Soon all the Government members joined in. Through the ancient chamber rang the words of the left-wing inspirational hymn (tune: O, Tannenbaum...
Camp Edwards was taken into camp for the second time last week by the tune of 8 to 3. "Lefty" Knowles handled the pitching duties, getting five men to go down on strikes. Saturday the Stahlmen will play host to the Melville PT Night Raiders on Soldiers Field, and will try to avenge the 6 to 3 beating suffered before...