Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These words, sung to the taut accompaniment of a studio orchestra, emerged last Sunday night from such U. S. radios as were tuned in on Columbia Broadcasting System's "Workshop of the Air" (producer of Archibald MacLeish's radio play in verse, Fall of the City, Stephen Vincent Benét's Paid Revere). The Captain who expected people to bow down was, it appeared, a Fascist, for his "Purple Shirts" aimed to exterminate "the mongrel race." Mr. Musiker, the composer who wanted to present to someone a tune that was running through his head, found...
Thus went I've Got the Tune, written and composed for Columbia's Workshop by Marc Blitzstein, whose The Cradle Will Rock rocked the WPA Federal Theatre in Manhattan last spring (TIME, June 28), will be put on Broadway this fall on a number of Sunday nights. I've Got the Tune, with Composer Blitzstein singing the role of Mr. Musiker, was his and the Workshop's first venture in radio operetta. For some listeners, Blitzstein's mocking libretto was not without class-conscious implications, even his wiry-muscled music suggesting the notion voiced...
...knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions, was cleared, and likewise the live poultry racket, which the notorious "Tootsie" Herbert controlled was broken up. The trucking racket, one of the toughest in the City was put straight, through not before one of the leaders, a man well known in the District attorney's Office...
...girl in an empty cabin during a cloudburst. Before the night was over Myron had backslid as far as he could go. But when he offered to marry her she said he was too mixed-up in his mind to make a husband. By the time she changed her tune. Myron had finally made peace with his Navajo gods, had finally renounced his mission-learned, mixed-up ways...
Last fall Blaik celebrated his third win to the tune of 26-7 with a team that had things pretty much its own way. Of his starting eleven, end Davis and backs Hollingworth and MacLeod will start tomorrow. On the Harvard team, Nee and Kevorkian at tackles, Green at left end, Struck at fullback, and Wilson then at quarterback, now at center, will be starting their second Dartmouth game. Others who played were: Jameson, Captain Allen who substituted for Charlie Kessler, Winter, Boston, Oakes, Harding, and Roberts who started at right half...