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Word: disks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking part in a discussion of jazz, said Wilson, will be George Wein, proprietor of Storyville and Mahogany Hall, Boston jazz emporiums; Nat Hentoff, disk jockey on station WMEX, and writer for "Metronome" and "Downbeat," prominent jazz periodicals; and "Symphony Sid," disk jockey on station WCOP, and one of the formost proponents of modern jazz music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz Society Holds First Meeting; Plans Forum-Concert for Tuesday | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

Would Texans listen to three hours of classical music every night? Charles Barbe, a former symphony conductor turned highbrow disk jockey, thought they would. But, he recalls, "every advertising agency in town told us we were chumps." Finally, the owner of Houston's station KXYZ-FM, Oilman Glenn McCarthy, decided to give Barbe, and Texas, a chance. Both came through with a symphonic bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Culture in Texas | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Potato Peeler. An automatic potato-peeler attachment for electric mixers was put on sale by Univex Products Co. of Somerville, Mass. Home-A-Peel, which can also be used to peel apples, onions and oranges, has an abrasive disk which rubs off thin peelings and pulverizes the waste. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...reassuring voices in the event of disaster. Other radio-TV personalities are slated to spell Godfrey and Murrow over a nationwide network. Well-known regional stars are scheduled to take over various statewide hookups; metropolitan areas will be told what is happening and what they should do by local disk jockeys and announcers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Recognition Value | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...SILENT SINERAMA IN SEX DIMENSIONS. Actually, the list of names she mentioned in court was a scattershot blast, as newsmen got it. They were unable to tell which were "clients" and which were mere "acquaintances" of Pat's. Such names as Screen Stars Mickey Rooney and George Raft, Disk Jockey Jack Eigen and Sportwriter Bill Stern were splashed across papers indiscriminately. Some of those mentioned denied that they had ever met her, while others like Mickey Rooney pointed out: "I met her five years ago at a party. What's wrong with that?" Of the entire list, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Behind the Closed Doors | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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