Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fans have come to expect dramatic accidents when they tune in on Paco Malgesto, the Arthur Godfrey of Mexico rolled into one. He appears on two of the country's three TV networks for a grand total of 8½ hours a week, spieling and laughing through a mixture of variety shows, bullfight commentaries, interview and quiz programs, and assorted sports shows. Paco almost never rehearses, believes in doing or saying on-screen what comes naturally ("When I itch, I scratch"), somehow has parlayed a combination of glibness, amiability and sports knowledge into nationwide fame and fortune. (Paco reports...
...TIME never doubted Hotpoint's ability to play it cool, thought the salesman would cool off before the blonde heard the tune. Tenderly...
...Fire (MGM) smolders intermittently, which is in itself surprising because the plot could set soap opera back at least ten years. Bing Crosby might have cheered everybody by husking a tune or two, but instead he is up to his tonsils in a sticky broken-home situation that would challenge the sweet wisdom of Dorothy Dix. He just cannot forgive his ex-wife (Mary Fickett) for letting herself be seduced, then married by that smooth talker from the State Department (Richard Eastham). The brink is attained when Mary shows up to play tug of war with Bing for custody...
...concert, under the direction of Robert Craft, a young disciple of the composer, began with Greeting Prelude, which Stravinsky wrote in 1955 for Pierre Monteux's 80th birthday. It is merely an elaborated fanfare on the wellknown "Happy Birthday To You" tune...
...first, to a melody by Joseph Haydn. A few years later the words were fitted to Sir Arthur Sullivan's now famous tune, St. Gertrude...