Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sullivan Show (Sun., 8 p.m.. CBS). Bing Crosby, Phil Silvers, Julie Andrews. Louis Armstrong; a tribute to LIFE Magazine on its 20th anniversary...
Early one evening last week, President Edward T. McCormick of the American Stock Exchange got a phone call from SEChairman Sinclair Armstrong in Washington : "Ted, I'm sending you a telegram to the effect that we are suspending trading in Great Sweet Grass Oils pursuant to section 19 (a) (4), and we are also suspending over-the-counter trading under section 15, rule X-15C2-2." Translated, this meant that in "the public interest," and to forestall "fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative acts or practices," Sweet Grass was suspended from trading for ten days. (Toronto continued to trade the stock...
...Those Things. George Sanders suavely suggested that he was singing C'est Magnifique. Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy provided the comic element, with some mild stabs of wit. Bing Crosby merely contributed a tune clipped from High Society (Now You Has Jazz), sung with Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, whose galvanic Blow, Gabriel, Blow undoubtedly jazzed up CBS's ratings. Best numbers: You Do Something to Me, ravishingly sung by Dorothy Dandridge: Sanders and bosomy Dolores Gray seductively sighing Let's Do It; and a bit of frail Cole Porter himself singing in clipped, patrician tones...
...trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt you/ I won't desert you/ We'll be together/ In stormy weather...
...DeVere P. Armstrong, new professor of Military Science and Tactics, announced yesterday a gain in initial enrollment in the Army detachment of 22, from 68 to approximately 90 students. Except during the Korean War, this is the highest enrollment the unit has received since World...