Word: dorsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...display featuring a woolly lamb surrounded by genuine lamb chops. The swan-song theme was carried out by a dozen huge swans, carved from ice, which graced the tables, plus flocks of smaller black-metal swans dangling from trellises in the yard. While a dance band (Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's), a rhumba outfit and an eight-woman string ensemble blared and sawed away, Marianne, all in pink with a diamond tiara, held court in a bower of pink flowers. Said she, as the new day dawned and the icy swans began to melt...
...arrangers for such once radical leaders as Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller, Finegan and Sauter got restless, last year started recording their own arrangements for RCA Victor (TIME, Aug. 11, 1952), finally took their own band on tour this summer. They decided to achieve new sounds by wider use of the old instruments. "We wanted to go high, so we wrote for piccolos," says Sauter. "We wanted to go low, so we added the tuba." Among the band's special effects: Finegan pounding his chest vigorously to imitate horses' hooves...
...Sentimental Mood (Tommy Dorsey; Decca LP). One of the most durable and disciplined bands in the business, the Dorsey crew has been riding high (with varying personnel) since 1936, still sounds fine. The selections range from the familiar dreamy theme song, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, to the bouncier Sentimental Baby...
...science cannot let well enough alone. In the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geologist Dorsey Hager attempts to prove that Meteor Crater is nothing but an ancient sinkhole that just happened to get peppered, late in its life, by a swarm of meteorites. According to Hager, Meteor Crater started as a steep-sided dome thrust upward several million years ago by geological forces. Its rock was splintered by distortion, and water penetrated to "evaporite" (salt) beds far below it. After millions of years, the water removed a lot of this soluble stuff, leaving enormous caverns. At last...
...attack remains Monk Alello, Phil Waring and Ed Cutis, who for the first time this year have fairly adequate replacements in Tom Whedon, Jim Dorsey and Bitsey Grant. The defense will also stay the same, with Tom Crump, Paul Jones, and Ted Sexton starting...