Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Live a Little (Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely; Capitol). A better-than-average "country" tune, urbanized with an organ accompaniment and some singing of less-than-standard country earnestness...
...King" Cole; Capitol). A new tune by Johnny Mercer from the forthcoming Broadway show, Top Banana. Both Mercer and Cole slipped on the skin...
...threat of this competition, NHK has decided to brighten up its own program. This week the 500 could tune in animated cartoons as well as politicians. Said one wan government official: "We have tried to keep our television programs dignified and moral. Now it looks as if we may have to find ourselves a Hopalong Cassidy-san. Maybe even, a Dagmar...
Intellectual Caviar. The people who want the highbrow Third Programme have never numbered more than 1,500,000, compared to the 45 million who listen to BBC's middlebrow Home network and the lowbrow Light Programme. But this small minority can tune in on the best brains, the best music and the best drama Britain can produce. Not all of the Third's intellectual caviar is equally palatable: it ranges from odd items like "An Ecologist among the Hopi" to Scientist Fred Hoyle's exciting series of lectures on the universe, which proved so popular that they...
...audience of postmasters, most of them political appointees. Harry Truman, who has joined Congress in asking raises for the mailmen despite the $500 million-a-year postal deficit, laid the "biggest part of the deficit" on the low rates on newspapers, magazines and advertising matter, a subsidy "to the tune of several hundred million dollars a year." Opposition to raising rates has come from "the slick-magazine publishers," said Truman, "and I mean that word in two ways . . . They have the nerve to complain about the high cost of government...