Word: barnetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Manhattan's big new Bop City (TIME, April 25), the fans were giving Mr. B. a reverent greeting in keeping with his shy, devotional manner. The lights went down; a solemn hush spread over the joint. With Charlie Barnet's big brass backing him, Eckstine gave them Somehow, in big, rich tones (he sings open-throated, instead of whispering into a microphone). His version of Ellington's Caravan had the fans hitting the trail (along with more than 1,000,000 record buyers). In his own rubbery phrasing, he stretched Ol' Man River...
...Numbers. In Barnet, England, a judge fined Mrs. Julian Hewett ?2 for her noisy dog after Complainant Albert Fitzherbert testified that he had clocked the animal at 65 barks per minute...
...Greenwood '39 returns today for the three-meter dive. Ulen calls him the Crimson's "best all-time diver," and three consecutive firsts in the Eastern Intercollegiates from 1937 to 1939 bear out this statement. George Dana '36 and Henry Fitts '35 will join him when Gordon Wier, Wayne Barnet, and possibly Tom Drohan challenge the alumni on the board...
...Song Is Born (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) may not be entirely satisfactory to either hep cats or squares. Jazz addicts will want to take the picture home with them, to listen again & again to the jam sessions of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong. To those who are mystified by popular music, these names will add up to much noise and little sense. A Song is designed as a starring vehicle for Danny Kaye, but he is almost drowned out in the blare...
...Newsman Barnet Nover this week brought off the dream assignment of every capital reporter: the first exclusive interview with President Harry Truman. An old friend of the President's, Nover is also the new Washington bureau chief of the Denver Post...