Word: davises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Hurdler Glenn Davis, who holds the Olympic title and world record for 400 meters, stumbled at the first barrier, suffered his first defeat since 1956, but still ran a strong second to surprising Dick Howard, 23, of the University of New Mexico.
The record industry, which is not finding the livin' in the singles market easy, hopes to ease some of its pain this summer with massive LP infusions of George Gershwin, massively publicized by a full throated chorus of movie and record company pressagents. With Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy...
Listeners curious to hear how Sammy Davis might have sounded if he had been included in the sound-track album can buy a Decca collection of excerpts, with Davis assisted by Carmen McRae. Both singers have a taste for vibrato, gratuitous grunts and wailing crescendos that achieve the remarkable effect...
Among no-words, all-jazz editions, Guitarist Mundell Lowe and a seven-man group are effective in a Camden album that has the musicians swinging in long, limber lines of nicely muted sound. The most imaginative Porgy is supplied by Trumpeter Miles Davis on a Columbia LP arranged by Gil...
On the operating table, Able's heart began to fibrillate. For 2¼ hours Dr. Davis and others worked over the sinking monkey. Dr. Davis tried to revive her by blowing his own breath into her lungs. Other doctors cut into her chest, gave her heart electric shocks and...