Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flight of the Flagship (American Airlines, General Records). Exciting two-faced documentary disc of a scheduled supper-to-breakfast. Long Island-to-Los Angeles transport flight. Fine operations' sound effects "recorded on location": teletypes giving weather data, radioed flight reports, beam signals. Children should...
...make our story complete, Glenn Miller has just made a record of "Stardust." Seems very fitting that the biggest thing in bandom at the present moment should make a disc of what has proven to be America's most consistently popular ballad...
...some comparison, listen to Tommy Dorsey's smooth work on his recording, or Jimmy Lunceford's Deccording with its beautiful brass work behind the vocal. Then listen to Louis Armstrong's (Vocalion) disc for what most critics consider to be the greatest solo work on "Stardust," and Benny Goodman's (Victor) for the top orchestral rendition. Unusual versions are Art Tatum's fast but flashy pianistics (Decca), the binging of the one and only Crosby (Brunswick), and movie star Anita Louise's harp pluckings for Royale
...begins as a dream. Then there is a turning point at which it ceases to be a dream, begins to take on the lineaments of reality. The point may be the conquest of a crucial technical obstacle-as when Corning Glass Works succeeded in casting a 20-ton glass disc for Caltech's 200-inch telescope. Or it may be a crucial matter of dollars. Last week University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, newest U. S. Nobel Prizeman, passed such a turning point when it was disclosed that the Rockefeller Foundation would give...
Cobber Kain's bag includes two Dorniers, three Messerschmitts. His talisman: A piece of Maori jade attached to his identification disc. His best girl: Joyce Phillips, repertory actress, last week playing at Peterborough in The Importance of Being Earnest. Said she: "I don't believe in getting married until the war is over...