Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remembered as one of the least fortunate maneuvers in British military history (over 2,000 British casualties, 71 American) and as the springboard that launched General Andrew Jackson on his way to the presidency. It now enjoys a third distinction as the subject of a pop disk, The Battle of New Orleans (Columbia), which has sold some threequarter million copies in less than a month. The recorded Battle is the handiwork of Louisiana Country Singer Johnny Horton, but the song has been played by bayou fiddlers for generations. Singer Horton toned down the original verses ("They lost their pants...
...name created by Manhattan-born Actor Byrnes on the TV series 77 Sunset Strip. In the show, Byrnes plays a parking-lot attendant who continually combs his hair as an antidote to thought. Warner Bros, noticed how teen-age televiewers dug Kookie, so it signed Byrnes to cut a disk and set a comb manufacturer to turning out "Kookie Kombs" by the thousands. When a Los Angeles disk jockey casually asked his listeners "Should Kookie cut his hair?" he promptly got 5,000 replies (100-to-1 against cutting). Warners is now planning to market Kookie billfolds and perhaps belts...
Commodore Bartle Bull, the CRIMSON mentor, rallied his forces for the supreme effort. Three times the entire batting order strode to the plate and, sparked by back-to-back grand slammers by "Cherokee" Chadwick and Boise Bryce Nelson, battered the stunned disk-jockeys...
...naked eye the sun seems a smooth, bright disk. But astronomers have long known that its face is mottled with hot clouds of hydrogen gas, which seem to be the source of some of the radiation that periodically disrupts radio communication, and may have an important effect on the earth's weather. The clouds give off ultraviolet rays on the so-called Lyman-alpha line of the spectrum, midway between visible light and X rays. Since these rays are absorbed by the earth's atmosphere long before they can reach the ground, no earthbound camera has ever been...
...seconds after he had fractured it in a faceoff and been knocked off his feet. The Crimson held Yale off without a good-shot, and Bud Higginbottom quickly tied the score a 3 to 3 when he took a pass at center ice, turned the defense, and rifled the disk past Forstmann...