Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME Room, where cover blow-ups and gold-and-black clocks hung from the ceiling on brightly colored ribbons, pretty debutantes called their requests for songs to four pianists while their escorts paid a papier-mache piper $1 a tune. There, too, handsome matrons and visiting celebrities accepted the invitation on a sign, "See yourself on the cover of TIME," smiling at themselves in small mirrors bearing the TIME logotype and familiar red border...
Roads were being widened and resurfaced, ancient potholes filled up. Grey top hats were on sale for the first time in a Lagos department store. In a city nightclub, a hot combo was rocking to the beat of a new boogie tune: Elizabeth R, Eight to the Bar, and at a local parking lot, a small, bald man, freshly arrived from London, was busily tuning up a gleaming Rolls-Royce, to put it in prime form for the Queen's ceremonial drive. Altogether, nearly $3,000,000 was being spent for Nigeria's first visit by reigning British...
...ferocity that the effect becomes strangely airy and bodiless. But the chief reason for all the internal excitement is the Duke's new drummer, Sam Woodyard. He sits, lean and still, behind his battery, neatly punctuating every phrase, coming as close as any man could to playing a tune on his four side drums and three cymbals (he actually squeezes pitch changes out of one drum by leaning on it with an elbow), while keeping a rhythm as solid as Gibraltar. When the band appeared bored with a number, he seemed to get under and shove-and the band...
...keep hoping that they will get to the top, too, if they just scatter enough loot along the way. NBC's The Big Surprise is still offering the biggest jackpot of all ($100,000) and still failing to get a jackpot-sized audience. CBS's Name That Tune has upped its ante to $25,000 without sensationally upping its rating, and ABC's Bert Parks loudly claims some sort of primacy for having dispersed "more than $5,000,000" over the years on Stop the Music and Break the Bank ("the granddaddy of all giveaways"). Even...
...Rittenburg, 1955 Crimson track captain, will compete in the Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles on June 29 and 30. Rittenburg, who will run in the hurdles, is currently a private in the army and stationed at Fort Dix, N.J. He will "tune up" in several major indoor meets when off-duty...