Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength of Dardanella's fame, Black decided to take Paper Doll off the shelf. In his dingy apartment off Times Square he had Publisher Edward B. Marks to dinner, played him the tune on the violin. Marks bought it for $25 advance royalties...
...Fort Bragg, where Hargrove lived and gold-bricked, is just what he cracked it up to be. Strange and quaint people and officers, fantastic programs, and unbelievable feats of training squat sweatingly there. Forty-five former Harvard ROTC men will to I you so any day, to the tune of the Caisson Song...
Sued for Divorce. By Deanna Durbin, 20, who sang Universal Pictures out of bankruptcy (to the tune of a $20,000,000 box office); Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Vaughn Paul, 28, round-faced peacetime associate producer, after two and a half years; in Hollywood. The grounds: mental cruelty...
Walter Winchell has dubbed George Putnam "the greatest male voice in radio." Putnam is the property of the National Broadcasting Co. and the vocal light of its No. 1 station, Manhattan's WEAF. Nearly a million faithful Greater New Yorkers tune in his daily newscasts (6:15 & 11 p.m., E.W.T.), and no local radio newsman or commentator has more daily listeners in the Metropolitan area...
Good Neighbor necessities changed Cordell Hull's tune on expropriation. By 1941, the U.S. had to make a face-saving deal to wash out the rest of its oil mess at a payment by Mexico of $24,000,000 plus interest-a metaphysical figure arrived at by a joint two-man commission of experts.* Last week the State Department announced that Mexico, now fat with U.S. dollars, had made final arrangements to settle its debt in full. With the final annual payment in September 1947, Mexico will own all U.S. oil properties outright for a total...