Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardy inhabitants* of isolated Aklavik at the mouth of the Mackenzie River own 220 radios. But for a long time they could tune in regularly on only one station, at Fairbanks, Alaska, and it broadcasts only in the winter. Now, thanks to a burly, good-natured Canadian soldier named R. A. ("Red") MacLeod, Aklavikans have a full-fledged station of their...
Following this, the Seniors will be welcomed to the Alumni, represented by Laird Bell '04, retiring president of the Alumni Association, and Ralph Lowell '12, new president of the Associated Harvard Clubs. The program will be completed with the singing--to the tune of "Fair Harvard"--of the Class Ode, written by Harold C. Fleming '44, and directed by Chorister Whitson M. Overcash...
...Goulding hit a snag: no matter how Gloria Swanson said the line ("Take him back, I don't want him"), it sounded corny. Instead of changing the line, he took the Hollywood way out: he diverted the audience's attention with background music. Goulding thought up a tune himself, whistled it to an arranger. His tune, to which Elsie Janis later wrote lyrics, became Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere...
Last year, directing The Razor's Edge, he objected to the music written for a Montmartre café scene. He whistled a new tune, which was picked up by a studio accordion player and transcribed for orchestra. The studio got 5,000 letters asking about the song. After that Tin Pan Alleyman Mack Gordon wrote a slushy verse to go with Goulding's mushy tune...
...Parade. Mam'selle jumped from 25th to first place on sheet music best-seller lists in ten weeks. Said Whistler Goulding proudly: "When you whistle you're naked. You can't play covering chords to conceal the fact that you haven't got a good tune...