Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remainder of the program is a well-assorted collection of war propaganda featuring Christmas in London ad dive-bombing at the Pensacola Naval Flying School. To relieve that grim note a style show is included which displays, as the announcer succinctly puts it, "the latest dresses with bags to match...
Proving there's nothing new under the sun is TIME'S reference (Dec. 30) to experiments of Dr. Robert Marshall Stephan with urea to combat tooth decay. Gaius Valerius Catullus, about 2,000 years ago, wrote: (Ad Egnatius, Canto XXXIX) ". . .We know the Spanish custom, how Spaniards clean their teeth and scour their gums with the same water that issues from their bladders. ... If your teeth are clean, we know how you have used your urine...
...named Colin Campbell. Campbell's combination, released under a Commodore Music Shop label, includes Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and, most notably, Fats Waller. Because of his Victor contract, Waller uses the nom de piano of Maurice, his nine-year-old son. His improvisations and ad lib choruses have much more sound invention than he ordinarily waxes for Victor. Of the four sides of jam and jazz classics, Georgia Grind provides most Waller, most listening...
...cities. First to get the crackdown was the Fred Allen show. Twice, claimed ASCAP, the program had allegedly tootled the strains of the late ASCAPper George Gershwin's Winter-green For President. Legal talent prepared to sue CBS and its stations which carried the program, Texaco, the ad agency...
...time dates from April 3, 1936. That night he was stationed at Trenton to cover the execution of Bruno Hauptmann. Although Heatter had been tipped off that Bruno was scheduled to be electrocuted at 8:05, he did not die until close to nine. Meanwhile, Heatter ad libbed triumphantly for 53 minutes for MBS, setting a record for extemporaneous chatter...