Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones (Hal Kemp; Victor). Harold Rome's rousing barn dance tune from the new Sing Out The News (see p. 30). Foxtrot-of-the-month...
Medical schools have been the chief objects of G. E. B.'s philanthropy, to the tune of $89,000,000. Vanderbilt's got over $15,000,000, University of Chicago's nearly $11,000,000. Others: Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Washington University (St. Louis), Yale. Harvard, Columbia. To liberal arts colleges, G. E. B. has given $68,000,000; for Negro education, $40,000,000; for special educational programs, $53,000,000. By stipulating that its gifts be matched by other donors, it stimulated donations totaling $400,000,000 to U. S. higher education...
...usual, was the piping contest. Contestants were judged on points, 100 being regarded as a perfect score. Twenty-five of the hundred points were allowed for time, 25 for tone, 50 for execution (the technique of trills and capers with which every good piper decks out the tune he is playing). If a piper missed a melodic trick, or if he allowed his reed to "choke" (stop vibrating for lack of air), he was docked a point or two by the judges. Last week's winners: stocky James Bremner of Kearny, Pipe-Major John MacKenzie of Brooklyn, Piper...
When matters reached this pass, cooling St. Louisans were inclined to change their angry tune. The American Artists' Congress warned against retarding cultural growth in St. Louis. The United Office and Professional Workers Union (C.I.O.) protested the proposal. Rich St. Louis families who have given the museum gifts and endowments worth $400,000 let it be known that these would lapse if the museum's administration were changed. Remarked the Museum Board's portly president, Architect Louis La Beaume: "There has been nothing like this since the monkey trial at Dayton, Tenn...
...loans, so the Harris Bank suggested that Garnett C. Skinner (a onetime Hearst advertising supervisor) be put in charge of the brewery to revitalize it. During his regime Prima sales dropped from 30,000 bbl. to 5,000 bbl. per month. Prima sued the banks and won. to the tune of the judge's savage remarks about banking practices...