Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the paper work done by outsiders, Cabot and his staff are able to spend all of their time in the study of investment prospects. In the last fiscal year, their research paid off to the tune of a 5.05 percent rate of return on the historical cost of investments, and in the year before that, the income equalled 5.08 percent--the highest in 20 years. During Cabot's five-year career, he has increased the General Investments more than $104,000,000, which is a phenomenal rise of over 50 percent...
...Pretty Tune. The typewriter's future was obscure in its infancy. Not even Inventor Sholes had faith in it. But Promoter James Densmore. like Sholes a former newspaperman, believed in it "from the topmost corner of my hat to the bottommost head of the nails of my boot heels." He wanted to play Sholes' "literary piano" to the tune of a million dollars...
...years while waiting for the right tune. Promoter Densmore went into debt, slept in a garret, wore shabby clothes and often lived on apples and soda crackers. During that time, he prodded Sholes into turning out machine after machine. When Densmore got a new model, he gave it to a compliant friend with precise instructions: "Give it a good thrashing. Find out its weak spots . . . Sholes is sick of experimenting, but I am going [to] make the thing work or pound the hell...
After finishing second to Yale, however, in the Eastern Intercollegiates at Dartmouth last weekend, the Eagles are favored in the match, a tune-up for the New England Intercollegiate Championships at nearby Oakley Country Club next weekend...
...popularity grew, Frankie decided to go out on his own. Somehow, with the decline of big-name bands, Sinatra's type of tune seemed to drop out too. In 1942 Sinatra signed with Columbia Records, whose artist and repertory chief is bearded Mitch Miller (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953). Says Frankie: "Came the age of Miller-ism. Mind you, I'll admit he's a great musician, but I can't go along with him. Instead of a real interest in the lyrics or the melody, all Miller cared about was gimmicks. One day he said...