Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Purple Heart (20th Century-Fox) was made behind locked doors, and in defiance of Washington officials who were soft-pedaling Jap atrocities. A few weeks ago, Washington changed its tune. Producer Darryl Zanuck* was urged to finish the film as soon as possible. Reason: it is a picture about Japanese atrocities, and Washington had decided to talk about the atrocities...
Wartime prosperity even caught up with the New York Stock Exchange. In the red for six years (to the tune of $816,000 in 1942), the Exchange last year actually turned up a comfortable profit...
...More than a third of the Arab listeners understand spoken English. Practically none of them tune in on foreign languages other than English and French...
...separate poll of Jewish listeners in Arab-heavy Palestine disclosed that 46% of them tune in regularly to the three daily newscasts of the Palestine Broadcasting Service. Jews prefer news and news commentaries, music and Bible reading, in that order. About half of them also like the Children's Hour, which is designed for children six to twelve years...
...general, Composer Porter has relied on comic ditties instead of trying to dazzle the customers with languorous Latin rhythms. But out of a pleasantly unexciting score emerges one fetching, early-Porterish tune, I Love You. The dancing, too, is Main Stem rather than Mexican-fast routines and catchy specialties. The sets are vivid, the costumes showy. Killjoy on the hayride is the book, which for a while is a worse threat than...