Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Melville PT Night Raiders sent the Crimson down to their second straight defeat by the tune of 6 to 3 Jack Wallace was again hit solidly for nine hits, including two homers, and six tallies before he was removed in the fifth inning. "Lefty" Knowles did a fine piece of relief hurling by pitching shutout ball and allowing only four hits in the four innings that he worked. The Varsity gathered single tallies in the first, six and eighth, and were held to six scattered hits. Pope, the PT pitcher, whiffed batters on strikes...
Most spot commercials are either obnoxious or vapid. Chiquita Banana, sung to a catchy, Calypso-style tune, is so different that listeners actually like it. Last week, after more than eight months on the air, it had become the undisputed No. i on the jingle-jangle hit parade. Its composers, Garth Montgomery and Len Mackenzie (of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), not unmindful of the famed banana smash of the early 1920s, decided to doll up their lyrics, and give them a try as a popular song...
...Like the Tune. Hardly had Aller time to snort "ridiculous" before irate Nebraskans rose up to smack down Democrat Boren. The sale price of Nebraska Power, said the Omaha Committee, was set after months of negotiations, valuations by two private firms. Since the sale, the Committee has paid off $600,000 on the purchase. It hopes to save another $324,000 yearly by calling in the $7,452,300 in preferred stock, which pays dividends of 6% and 7%, replace it with bonds paying 2½% interest. Committeemen were sure that Boren had been needled into his blast...
Five weeks before Dday, ABSIE (the American Broadcasting Station in Europe) made its debut to the opening bars of Yankee Doodle. Last week, to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner, it took its leave. ABSIE, operated by OWI and SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Division, had earned an honorable discharge for valiant service, but few Americans had paid it more than passing notice...
...time advanced, Fitzgerald found himself less & less in tune with it. The accent on youth remained on him, but it seemed to have left everybody else. Some of his friends had died; a few had gone insane ; others had suddenly grown intensely serious and were reading Karl Marx. The literary limelight was no longer on him but on the novelist he most admired, Ernest Hemingway...