Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 40 Texas insurance companies have gone bankrupt in the past three years. Last week the state's slow-moving Insurance Commission revealed probably the biggest bust of them all. Said the commission: ICT Insurance Co. is "hopelessly insolvent," to the tune of $4,460,243. Left holding the bag were some 14,000 stockholders and 100,000 policy holders. Most of them were labor-union members, because more than 50% of ICT Insurance Co.'s stock was owned by about 380 Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O. locals...
...hypnotist makes the horse think he's Man o' War, or does he? and then . . . Well, that was the way it went. Trendex gave Snowshoes a high rating, which ought to make Playhouse 90, its sponsors and its network worry: Will many of those millions ever tune in again...
...boodle: as much as $500 in French francs. From then on, the visitor is on his own, needs only to check in with the embassy's boodle man to replenish his wallet. In 1955 in Paris alone, some 700 Junketeers availed themselves of this service, to the tune of $100,000; in 1956, the number dropped to 400, the amount...
...Prosper Mérimée.* As a pretty street singer who ditches her poor but honest boy friend (Baritone Theodor Uppman) for a viceroy of Peru, Soprano Patrice Munsel does some discreet bumps and grinds, rides an ass, and prettily sings the operetta's best-known tune, a farewell aria to her sweetheart-one of those lovely, almost-convincing pieces of lyricism that Offenbach turned out along with his musical ironies. In addition to the ass ridden by Soprano Munsel-a beast named Amos, rented at $30 a night-Actor-Director Ritchard has assigned himself a black charger...
Petticoats of Portugal (Pérez Prado; RCA Victor). A rising tune whose simpering lyrics belong in tinseled nightclub surroundings, in its most palatable version. Cuban Bandleader Prado presents it in slow mambo rhythm, and mercifully omits all vocals except for one Pradian grunt...