Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lloyd's issued the first insurance policy against squatters last week, when Greenhill & Powell, estate agents, insured their flats in Chelsea-which they had just renovated to the tune of ?23,000-against squatter damage. The terms were stiff-?75 for three months to cover up to ?5,000 damage...
This week Pierre-Henri Teitgen, Minister of Justice, offered a fuller explanation: "Dewavrin used his 'caisse noire' [secret funds] to make clandestine deposits in France and abroad which he did not reveal to his successors; his accounts were incomplete and inexact to the tune of 40 million francs [$3,335]." But the Government (which had dealt with the Passy case secretly at Cabinet level) was prepared to be lenient. "You don't do counter-espionage with choir boys," said Teitgen. There would be no public trial: "It is necessary ... to safeguard certain secrets...
...Harvard managerial system of which its former members were justly proud and which "Life" magazine chose as the leading system in the country in 1939, is being restored in tune with the reestablishment of formal athletics. To revive the type of efficient and interested assistance which coaches and players require, ambitious and capable Freshmen are sought. The job calls for energy and application, but the rewards and attractions are ample...
...Although Wakeman insisted that his fantastic, domineering Evan Evans was a fictional "composite," the resemblances to George Hill seemed more than coincidental. Like Evans, Mr. Hill is fond of wearing a hat in his office. His alltime Hit Parade favorite is a slam-bang version of Over There (a tune which delighted Mr. Evans). Like Mr. Evans, whose slogan was "Love that Soap," Hill believes in irritating and ear-shattering repetition. Some American Tobacco plugs: "Herbert Tareyton is back-yes, Herbert Tareyton is back!" "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war" and "L.S./M.F.T...
...Last week in Rio de Janeiro for the first time in six years, a tango swept the town. Cariocas crowded the Teatro Carlos Gomez, an old vaudeville house in the old quarter of downtown Rio to hear a pretty, black-eyed Argentine import named Chola Luna sing the hit tune Adiós, Pampa...