Word: cole
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good faith of the House was promptly tested and proved. Speaker Martin crushed an attempt by one of his own party, New York's professorial W. Sterling Cole, to upset the streamlined rules provided in the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act. It was a good omen. The new rules stand; House committees are cut from...
Popular song writers have come in for an awful beating in a series of film biographies. Following the other-world treatment given Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Metro wisely took another tack and put the life of Jerome Kern on the screen much as it should be presented in little more than concert form. If there is a story in "Till the Clouds Roll By," it is the harmless sort of narrative involving no backstage inamoratas or tearful college reunions. According to the film, the greatest difficulties in Kern's life were a ne'er-do-well arranger...
Best small band: the King Cole Trio, which nine years ago was playing California cocktail bars for $25 a week apiece. Now, largely because of the casual "singing of Nat (King) Cole, son of a Negro Baptist minister, the trio earns $5,000 a week, for such songs as Straighten Up and Fly Right ("Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top") and Get Your Kicks on Route...
...Hoagy honky-tonks around on a baby upright ("It's got that nice chuckachucka tone"), makes palaver with one Sherlee Turner. He also has another pianist, Buddy Cole, because he cannot play, sing and read lyrics at the same time. And he has to read the lyrics because he never learned to remember them, even his own. (He never learned to read music, either...
Eliot: le, Abbot; lt, Collopy, Parker; Palmer, Rand; c, Meade, England; rg, Predmore, Winters; rt, Fisher, Cole; re, Morgan; backs, Greeley, McGiffert, Williams, Owen, Furber, Hughes...