Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...
...last period spurt was sparked by wingman Sid Greeley, who tallied three times. Lou Preston drew first blood in the game with a magnificent solo dash around the Tiger defense after picking up the disc at mid-ice. He was subsequently forced to leave the game with an injury...
...skit. Jack McVea, leader of a small West Coast Negro jazz band, had heard the skit years ago-and the phrase stuck. Last summer on a rainy day in Portland, Ore. he wrote a simple riff tune for it and later recorded it-leaving out the references to whiskey. Disc jockeys in Los Angeles started plugging it last month, and soon McVea's record had sold 300,000 copies, mostly on the West Coast. As soon as it caught on, McVea heard from the lawyers of John Mason, an old-time Harlem comic who had written the Richard skit...
Folk Music of the Central East (Disc, 6 sides). The first album of Moe Asch's ethnological folk music series (TIME, Feb. 25) was recorded in remote southern republics of the U.S.S.R. The result is not Tchaikovsky's Russia but polyglot: in different sections the music sometimes sounds like an Indian powwow, sometimes like a swirl of bagpipes, sometimes like Chinese temple music. Performance: uneven...
Although present wiring arrangements do not include the Yard and the Business School, Network engineers are drawing the diagrams and sketching the blueprints for more complete University coverage, so that more may have a chance to hear the disc-jockeys, the presidents, and the professors emeritus that are pushed before the WHCN microphone...