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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very pleasant jazz, this Dixieland heard at the Savoy--a jazz almost lost now, for the cash comes to other forms of music. But it's nice to see a beardless youth like Wilber playing it straight, playing it so close to Cambridge, and playing it so well. Wilber on the low notes, Hall on the high ones, and Archey's trombone make the Savoy's offering as good as anything going. Charles W. Halley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilber and Hall | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

Something Wrong. Gehrmann wasted no time looking back. The loudspeaker told him what he wanted to know: at the half, he heard his time (2:02), noted that Willy Slykhuis was second, pressing close. Ingvar Bengtsson, loaded with penicillin for abscessed teeth, had faded fast and was out of the running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anthem Night | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Wall Street brokerage offices one day last week, the tape-watchers suddenly sat up and began to take close notice. U.S. Steel, a high-priced blue chip that on most trading days is only moderately active, was leading the whole list in trading. In the biggest day's turnover (17,600: shares) since Nov. 10, Big Steel went up 1½ points, closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: The First Split | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Coast syndicate, two big companies and an internationally known banker"-were interested. Chicago's Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe said he didn't "have the least bit of confidence in [Tucker's] statements," but he gave him until March 3 to put up the cash or close down his shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Cooper (The Long Voyage Home, Fort Apache) and Scripters Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory) and Frank S. Nugent (Fort Apache). The finished product gives the viewer the kind of shock he might get from seeing all the Flying Wallendas fall off the high wire at once. Godfathers is close to being an unintentional parody on the old-fashioned western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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