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Wide Wide World (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). "American Riches," with Duke Ellington and his orchestra; Artist Thomas Hart Benton; a visit with Eisenhower's boyhood chums in Abilene...
...Chicago's Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; Detroit's Harley, Ellington & Day, Inc., with Washington, D.C.'s A. R. Clas as associate...
...home of refined dancing" and installed two continuously playing orchestras (practically unheard of till then). He spotted and hired the comers in the dance-band world: Vincent Lopez, Harry James, Louis Armstrong, the Dorseys and Glenn Miller, brought in such headliners as Ted Lewis, Paul Whiteman and Duke Ellington...
...jazz as the lifeblood of its score. But, as a musical show, it had to be all written down, could not take chances with improvisation, and thus lacked the prime ingredient of jazz. Now Bethlehem Records has taken a daring step: with an impressive concentration of forces-including Duke Ellington's band, the Australian Jazz Quintet, a vocal group and ten leading singers-it has recorded the famed work in a real jazz spirit. Each selection is accompanied by a different combo, e.g., Duke Ellington for a highly charged version of Summertime, a creative trumpet backing...
Thanksgiving Festival (Thurs. 5 p.m., CBS). With Duke Ellington, Joe E. Brown, Will Rogers...