Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glenn Martin reported that the U. S. has developed the basic design for a 250,000 Ib. plane that would fly 380 m.p.h., carry 64,000 Ibs. of bombs 3,000 miles with a crew...
...year ago Glenn Cunningham's foot-racing crown seemed glued to his head. Although he had been running for eight years, barrel-chested, iron-legged King Cunningham could still beat all comers at a mile, had set two world's records only the year before. Then one fine night, out of the ruck came Chuck Fenske, a bespectacled 23-year-old, to hand Cunningham his first defeat in 21 mile races...
...that Erskine Hawkins, Glenn Miller, Jan Savitt, and Al Donahue have all made "Tuxede Junction" and the tune looks like the hit of the month, a little story telling is in order...
...result was sales that made the Victor people really take his contract seriously. Hawkins, visualizing it as just another fairly successful colored riff tune, had turned the rights over to Lewis Music Company. At this point, Glenn Miller, the biggest thing in bandom at the present time, decided that the arrangement would fit his heavy and intricate style, and persuaded Lewis Music Company (for certain pecuniary considerations) to give him sole broadcasting rights. He rearranged it, slowing it down, and made it a fifteen minute show-piece for his eight-man brass section--muted. Then every night for several weeks...
Interesting to note the difference between the various records. As usual, Glenn Miller's is very cleverly arranged with his typical trick of using his brass section under volume, but with eight part harmony. Only trouble is that the very size and pretentiousness of the arrangement kills it. While his rhythm section is fair, it isn't up to the job of pushing a seventeen piece white band so that it "kicks" the way a good colored band does...