Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trying to escape her mink-lined fate as an offstage noise, Gloria has just recorded a new Columbia album, appeared last week on Art Linkletter's House Party, when she sang (through electronic ingenuity) all four parts of a quartet accompanying herself. "I like making money," she admits. "But I'd like to be known for all the things I've done. Nobody knows Gloria Wood...
...rigorous physical conditioning, boosted his strength with massive doses of vitamins and six packages of Knox gelatin a day. Sundays he checked his progress with Mme. Lhevinne, or gave small private recitals for groups of friends. When he left for Moscow, his phone bill was unpaid and his Columbia Artists contract was running out, with no talk of a renewal...
When the big news of Van's victory broke from Moscow, one of the first congratulatory cables came from the Kilgore National Bank. Van broke into a slightly twisted smile. "Maybe," he said, "they have more cause to congratulate me than anybody else." Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words. In the first shock of becoming the hottest musical commodity in the world, Van shuttled between awe and the depressing idea of "all those people making money out of me." But as the offers came pouring in, he began...
...Jury. In Vancouver, B.C., Judge Alexander Manson warmly congratulated Alice O'Keefe for becoming the first woman ever chosen foreman of a jury in British Columbia, dismissed her after a Mountie recognized her and told the judge that she had a criminal record...
...Lord Boyd Orr, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and first Director General of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization; and in Canada Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, formerly Director General of the U.N. World Health Organization. In this country, in addition to Dr. Corliss Lamont '24, of the philosophical faculty of Columbia Univ., to whom I referred previously, there are--to mention only a few--such men as Dr. Hermann J. Muller, professor of zoology at the Univ. of Indiana, Nobel Laureate in medicine (genetics), now president of the American Humanist Association (A.H.A.); Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, Ass't Dean...