Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooklyn-born Napoleon, 51, thinks of his return as a kind of mission. Somewhere, he feels, jazzmen have gotten off the track, both the latter-day Dixielanders and the bopsters, who seldom let you hear the tune. "These kids, now, all on a 'progressive' kick, don't know what they're listening to because they don't know where it came from." Phil Napoleon is doing what he can to set things straight by taking the young crowd back to first principles: "This music we're playing...
...United States finished her tune-up runs, she was embroiled in as loud a controversy as ever squalled up over Commodore Manning. The question: How much should the U.S. Lines pay for the ship? The line had signed a contract in 1948 to foot $28 million of the building cost, while the Government would pay the remaining $42 million. The Government's share was for subsidies to make up for the higher building costs of U.S. ships, and to pay for the expensive defense features...
They danced to the selfsame tune...
Hugh Amory read his Poem, and Dustin M. Burke the Class Ode, after which Chorister James L. Harkless led in its singing to the tune of "Fair Harvard." Sandwiched between these literary notes was a plea for money by President of the Alumni Association William M. Rand '09, and a welcome to the ranks of the Ten Thousand Men by Henry R. Guild, head of the Harvard Club of Boston, and representing the Associated Harvard Clubs...
Just before the spring vacation Massachusetts Hall almost went up in smoke--and did to the tune...