Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goldilocks, a musical visit to the Cro-Magnon days of moviemaking, was singing just a bit off key in Philadelphia, and its authors, Critic Walter Kerr and his wife Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), were working overtime to tune it up. At the Grand, the musical version of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel that is scheduled to take Paul Muni back to his beginnings as a vaudeville hoofer, is laid up in California while its producers try to produce a new book. Other shows were more nearly ready to kiss the road goodbye...
...corners outside. Boys choosing up sides for basketball chose Negro players. Negroes and whites ate together in the school cafeteria, though not at the same tables. At assembly, whites and Negroes, getting less tentative by the minute, stood up and sang the school song On, Fulton High to the tune of Working on the Railroad (which many of their fathers, whites and Negroes...
...hint at the possibility of some kind of restrictions on nonwhite immigration to Britain, Butler was in tune with an increasingly vocal segment of British opinion. The Trades Union Congress (see below) last week condemned any proposal to raise bars against Commonwealth non-whites and the Labor Party planned to insert an antidiscrimination plank in its next election program. Yet three of London's twelve leading newspapers-the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph-supported restrictions as did a growing number of Tory M.P.s and a few Laborites. And at week's end the Daily Express announced...
Government economists, who had expected the recession to be the same saucer shape as in 1948-49 and 1953-54, were changing their tune because an outpouring of new statistics showed a sudden and simultaneous hardening in the major muscles of the economy-capital expenditures, sales, new orders, inventories (see below). Every major industry counted in the Federal Reserve Board's index of production has boosted output from the low of last spring. The Fed felt recovery had progressed far enough to permit two more of its district banks, Minneapolis and Chicago, to raise their discount rates from...
...heady tune of applause and rebel yells, Arkansas' Governor Orval Eugene Faubus went before a joint session of the state legislature in the colonnaded capitol in Little Rock with the air of a man who was sure that things were going his way. He had called the legislators into special session to pass a set of carefully lawyered bills designed to grant him sweeping new powers-to close down schools threatened by mob violence or by federal troops sent to secure integration, to transfer state funds from any closed school to any new segregated private schools, to provide...