Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...score of years, while "kings" of jazz and swing have succeeded each other with Balkan rapidity, a "Duke" has exhibited most of the real majesty from beside the throne. So last week the U.S. music world helped the Duke celebrate his 20th year as a band leader. The American Federation of Musicians officially blessed a National Ellington Week in honor of famed Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, whose flamboyant black band has played superb jazz longer than any other orchestra in the history of U.S. popular music...
...great success story of the 20th Century ended last week with its hero in jail...
...worth of airmail stamps took the manuscript to New York. Within seven days it had been accepted for publication and picked as the Book-of-the-Month Club's February selection (with Norman Angell's Let the People Know). Shortly thereafter it had been sold to 20th-Century...
...during the first decade of the 20th Century, came more than 2,000,000 Italians, part of history's greatest population movement.* Rootless and adrift in the New World, they formed "foreign language" enclaves such as the one in Rochester, N.Y., where dark, pun-loving Author Mangione grew up. "Most of my relatives lived in one neighborhood [nicknamed Mount Allegro], not more than five or six blocks from each other. That was about as far apart as they could live without feeling that America was a desolate and lonely place...
Varsity trackmen scored a smashing victory over Northeastern Saturday, capturing seven events, but Crimson first string matmen bowed to a scrappy Penn team, which scored its 20th successive victory, winning...