Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depression swept New England in 1929, advertisers withdrew, leaving a disastrous gap in the revenue. Finally in 1939 finances demanded a complete revision of format and policy. The Transcript under new management blossomed forth with the "Newscope," front page pictures, headlines and unfamiliar makeups, without the usual Jay ad in the left-hand corner. But the five cent tariff and fatter editions failed to offset the continued small circulation...
That's the way a good jazz artist works, in an effortless, unassuming manner, always injecting just the right kind of "kick" into the improvisation. Nearly all of Crosby's many Decca recording are done in this style, and they show him to be a master of the ad lib, a good example of which is Small Fry, not exactly hot music, but with that quality of informal spontaneity which you hear in Louie Armstrong and others. Best of all is his famous Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, where Bing discovered that he was singing the wrong part...
Replete with catacombs, moving fire-places, escapes through sewers, and flowing cloaks, the U.T.'s latest offering leaves you with the definite impression that you have seen it all before. Louis Hayward is a very poor imitation of Errol Flynn, indulging in sword fights, balconies, and women ad infinitum...
Sinners). From the start he has insisted on having important stars around him, while his contemporaries were fighting for single billing. Last year, he teamed with Come dian Bob Hope in Road to Singapore, although Hope's ad-libbing prowess was supposed to be worse than death for any other comedian within range. Bing held his ground, and the result was one of the slap-happiest comedies of the season...
Last week in the Blue Ridge foothills at Marion, Va., a coffin was lowered into a grave. In it was the burly body and curious brain of Sherwood Anderson, paint manufacturer, ad writer, editor, short-story teller, novelist, poet, American. The grave had had to wait more than two weeks. Anderson died at Colon, Panama...