Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reykjavik's cobblestoned levees in 1941, is closer in other ways. Naturally Iceland does not like the presence of strangers. But the U.S. has demonstrated neighborliness by trying to keep things on a guest-&-host basis (see LETTERS). The U.S. has underwritten British obligations to Iceland to the tune of $20,000,000 annually. The U.S. pays good U.S. dollars for Iceland's fish and fish products. Chances are that if the Icelandic Republic leans in any direction, it will lean westward...
...scoffers, changing their tune, began to speculate on Roger Lapham as a successor to aged (77), ailing U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, who has been absent from the Senate most of the time in the last three years...
...York Timesman; Hickman Powell, ex-expert New York Herald Tribune reporter; his Banking Superintendent, Elliott V. Bell, and Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran, who is also Manhattan G.O.P. leader. Last week, to the delight of Democrats, Tom Curran brought out an official Dewey campaign song, to the tune of Yankee Doodle: Oh, Tom E. Dewey came to town A-ridin' on a pony He busted gangs and jailed the mobs And cleared out every phony. Tom E. Dewey keep it up You're swingin' sharp and dandy The White House is your home next year...
...interest. Plans for the Pre-Commissioning (or, Goodbye to Harvard, hello Sampson) Banquet are rapidly being formed. Entertainment is at present being quietly solicited. Jack Brunner, who evidently favors tennis courts to ballrooms, will be there with his guitar. Croonin' Huddy Futral promises to give the boys a tune. (Futral--the deflated Sinatra). A whole host of talent will be there...
Broadway Rhythm (M.G.M.) is a Technicolored, tune-stirred summer salad into which M.G.M.'s chefs seem to have whipped practically everyone and every thing on the lot except Leo the Growl and Louis B. Mayer. Most conspicuous ingredients are Ginny Simms, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Gloria De Haven, Lena Home, Hazel Scott, Rochester, Tommy Dorsey. The show lasts just a quarter short of two hours, so there is plenty of time to doze between the best moments. There are also a great many tunes, of which the best remains the 1939 All the Things You Are, as Ginny Simms...