Word: corale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Welk, who neither smokes nor drinks, lives in Brentwood, Calif, in an eleven-room Spanish-style house (no swimming pool), with his wife-a former nurse-and three children. From TV, Coral Records, the Aragon ballroom and personal appearances he grosses close to $2,000,000 a year at a time when most bands are having trouble. He is happy to pass on his formula to other orchestra leaders: "Just as soon as bands are willing to play for the public instead of themselves, they will have plenty of people ready to dance and listen to them...
...Chief of Staff George Marshall, the cracking of the famed Japanese "purple" code, for which Friedman was principally responsible, led to vital foreknowledge of Hitler's intentions in Europe and gave the U.S. Navy a priceless advantage in intelligence that led to such critical victories as Coral Sea, Midway and subsequent bold carrier strikes. Friedman himself gently declines to take so much credit. "There is no single person," he once said, "to whom the major share of credit should go. It represents an achievement of the Army cryptanalytic bureau." But the fact is that, more than any other...
...Coral Gables...
Shooting Singles. Meanwhile, Estes rolled across the country as polities' closest approximation to perpetual motion. In three days early in the week he barnstormed the east coast of Florida from Jacksonville to Coral Gables. Everywhere he went he repeated the tried-and-true Kefauver vote-getting tactics which, said one Floridian, reminded him of "a quail hunter shooting singles." In Jacksonville, with a few minutes to spare, he carried on a vigorous sidewalk campaign in the neighborhood of his hotel, then went into a barbershop to announce, "I'm Estes Kefauver. I'm running for President...
...three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...