Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editor White to listen to the music of some of the other dance bands such as popular Glenn Miller, Eddie Duchin, Artie Shaw, T. Dorsey, Paul Whiteman, Dick Jurgens, Orrin Tucker, and many more. Then may he tell us what he thinks of the music that is "squawked and shrieked and roared and bellowed...
...ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings. was prepared to convert plant space of World War I vintage to other munitions production. Aged (73) Tank-Designer Walter Christie popped up in Washington with plans for a tank to be hooked to an airplane and landed ready for combat. Aircraftsman Glenn Martin in Baltimore declared that all the established industry needs to get into real mass production is mass orders. Two men in charge of the dynamo whence all this humming proceeded were a white-haired young man named Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and a Danish, cat-stepping giant named William...
...Listen to "Sleep" and "Slow Freight" by Benny Carter and "Bugle Call" and "Slow Freight" by Glenn Miler if you want to hear the difference between a band of men that can really play, and a bunch of kids straining and not getting there. Carter's arrangement of "Sleep" is just as fast if not faster than Miller's "Bugin Call," but it has none of the tenseness and lack of molo-Ideas that the Miller does. Glenn copied Carter's record of "Slow "Freight" and even then it isn't as good as a total picture or as good...
Nearly three years ago, a tall, plump, perspiring Negro preacher named Glenn T. Settle, trailing 19 dusky members of his Gethsemane Baptist Church, marched into Cleveland's station WGAR and asked permission to sing a few spirituals. The Rev. Settle and his flock were only fair. But to Spiritual-Fancier Worth Kramer, young white program director of WGAR, the colored choir presented a chance to try his hand at arranging Negro music. Adding 16 voices to Settle's original 19, he drummed his arrangements into the musically illiterate group by rote, drilled them for weeks before...
...Rochester, N. Y., Ritter Dental Mfg. Co. turned its attention from landing gears, made on subcontract for Glenn Martin, to the summer busy season in dental equipment sales. Stromberg-Carlson had a $48,985 educational order for field-telephone magnetos, but was more interested in its booming domestic business of frequency-modulation radio sets...