Word: burle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Executive Vice President Burl S. (for Stevens) Watson, 59, became president of Cities Service Co., succeeding W. Alton Jones, 62, who moved up to board chairman. Watson, who joined Cities Service 36 years ago as an engineer, helped President Jones reorganize Cities Service's widely spread companies into a single system, disposing of its electric and natural-gas utilities, and concentrating on its oil and natural gas business...
...Burl Ives (Columbia). An early welcome to Christmas, with a spuriously hearty number entitled Grandfather Kringle and a traditional English song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, which is one of the prettiest seasonal songs of the year...
...Peter Pan, Boris Karloff launched his Boris Karloff's Treasure Chest (over Manhattan's WNEW). Far from the creep-voiced menace of his early movie days, Karloff dished up nonsense (Lewis Carroll's double-talking Jabberwock), limericks, and songs (recorded by Groucho Marx and Burl Ives), gave a fatherly lesson in tolerance (the story of a Churkandoose, which was neither chicken, turkey, duck or goose: "I'm sure . . . you'll respect his right to be different"). It looked as though onetime Frankenstein Monster Karloff, who reported a "tremendous reaction from children and their mothers," might...
Last winter they decided to try for full-time work at Manhattan's Village Vanguard, where other folk singers (Richard Dyer-Bennett, Burl Ives and Josh White) got their start. After a one-night trial, they got a two-week contract at $50 a head, stayed for six months. Singing loud & clear or sweet & low, they found they could get noisy nightclubbers to quiet down for everything from Southern work songs and African chants to Indonesian lullabies and mountain hymns...
Following the politicians, Chamber of Commerce officials thanked unheard of committees and unheard of committee heads for "splendid efforts;" the crowd applauded politely, and dwindled. People perked up, though, when Burl Ives appeared to banjo "The Blue Tail Fly," and they joined in the "cracked corn" chorus. Then the dinner chairman arose and introduced a bagpipe band. Cranced necks and scampering children greeted it with curiosity; but when it played "Auld Lang Syne" only a few voices followed the chairman's plea for song. Instead, most people started moving away...