Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand why arrangers don't use them more to create something that will have a lasting musical value, not only for the fine melody that's already there, but for the good jazz that should be. I guess the best answer to this lies in what Glenn Miller told me a couple of years...
...been accused of playing noises, but this isn't true. There's a clear-cut distinction between a band that screams because it's expected to and a band that drives because that's the way the boys feel. Just compare the Basic brass section with Harry James' or Glenn Miller's and I think you'll see what I mean. There are swing bands and swing bands, but the Count is unique in having an ensemble whose savage attack is purely spontancous, and consequently relaxed. Now this word "relaxed," I realize, has become a standing joke around these parts...
Founded by Glenn Saxon '44 and S. A. Tucker '44, the Club's aims are to supervise all building at Harvard, especially the new library. Membership fee is ten cents, and sister chapters are expected to spring up soon in Wellesley and Radcliffe...
Dapper, 32-year-old Glenn McCarthy loves to wear big diamonds, has a reputation as a ruthless bargainer, admits he "takes no chances." When his natural gas field in West Beaumont came in, he offered to sell to vast United Gas System. When they refused, he organized Beaumont Natural Gas Co., secured a franchise, caused United to cut its industrial rate from 18 to 10? per thousand cu. ft. McCarthy's offer to the city-gas for as low as 3½? per thousand-inspired a campaign for municipal ownership which is costing United thousands of dollars. Last week...
...Diamond Glenn" now has 300 employes, figures his staff of engineers, geologists, drillers, roughnecks, are the best in the business. Month ago he announced his tenth discovery. Out on Bailey's Prairie, in Brazoria County, his latest gusher came in. One of the deepest low-gravity oil producers on the Coast, it was the centre of a 10,000-acre tract, all under McCarthy lease. It looked as though the Wildcat King had joined the semi-majors...