Word: twist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them "buddy-boy." (He calls Gable "Clarkie.") Once he proudly noted in his column that his seven-year-old daughter has a standard answer to kids who ask what her father does: "He writes the best damn column in town, and if I don't say so, they twist...
...just go into a dime store and get a kid's story, twist it a bit and turn it into music"). His You Call Everybody Darling is the nation's No. 1 song hit. (His recording of it with his "Happiest Band in the Land" is also the No. 4 bestselling popular record.) And last week, "so people will be sure to identify it with me," Blackhawk customers were getting liberal doses of his latest number, Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes...
...Oliver Twist...
...diversion. "But one afternoon last week," cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs from Tel Aviv, "that attitude suddenly changed. High up in the blue sky, a grey-green Egyptian Spitfire ' plunged almost vertically toward the town. As it plummeted with the sun glinting on the wings, it seemed to twist slightly, giving the impression that the plane was out of control. Some Tel Avivians standing in the street began to clap their hands, thinking it had been shot down...
Joint instruction will get a reverse twist this summer...