Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dunster Dunces recently received an offer to appear on a nationwide TV show, Name That Tune. Like the Band, Glee Club, Hasty Pudding, and numerous faculty members, they could not accept the offer because of a University rule which has remained all but invariable for over ten years. Adopted and periodically reaffirmed by a Corporation vote, the rule states that Harvard's name may not be used in connection with a radio or television show...
...dead man's body for the rest of the night, then all through the next day and the next night, and into early hours of the following morning. He slept a few fretful moments on his tiny bench. Once or twice he whistled the snatch of a tune, nibbled on some food passed through an air lock, glanced at some magazines...
...become television's hottest daytime property. Every afternoon Monday through Friday, some 10 million TViewers-nearly half the nation's audience at that time-follow the laments of five contestants, and the contrapuntal clownings of M.C. Bailey, 48. An additional 1,000,000 or more listeners tune in the show on the Mutual radio network...
...Tattered Dress (Universal-International) is a courtroom melodrama. The hero (Jeff Chandler), cast as "the greatest trial lawyer since Clarence Darrow," is a sort of jukebox genius who will sing almost any tune for almost anybody who provides the coin. When a young hellionaire (Philip Reed) murders his wife's boy friend. Lawyer Chandler finagles an acquittal. For the next hour or so the pattern of the plot looks like something perpetrated by a drunken silkworm. Is the sheriff (Jack Carson) the crook? Is the hero the villain? Is the lawyer the defendant? Does anybody care? Actor Chandler seems...
...Bartokian turns. I was a bit disturbed by the unrelievedly grim and anguished cerebration that the music betrays. I also question the wisdom of starting a quartet with such a lengthy duet for violin and 'cello (which almost guarantees that the flute, being cold, will enter out of tune) and of inserting such a long piano solo in the middle: both the players and the audience will feel cheated. I must single out Lawrence Lesser for his masterly handling of the 'cello part...