Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strive for music comparable to Saturday Evening Post art-no Carnegie Hall atmosphere." Victor called it "The Flanagan Flair." Actually, even down to a sweet clarinet leading the. saxophones in front of big but softly barking brass, it was more of a hark-back to the days of Glenn Miller...
...similarity was no coincidence. Flanagan's first big break came when he arranged an album for Rainbow Records called A Tribute to Glenn Miller, who was reported missing in a flight over the English Channel during the war. Then he got a chance to try a few more in the old "danceable" mood. Recording with a house band of studio musicians, he turned out four sides for Victor's revived Bluebird (49?) label which sold so fast that some dealers hiked the price to 79?. Flanagan's next recording sold just as well. Before he knew...
...Flanagan had not flared into fashion without causing some embarrassment here & there. Victor Recording Star Tex Beneke (TIME, June 2, 1947 et seq.), who had inherited the Glenn Miller mantle in the first place, was hastily trying it on again...
Creating new heavy elements is a faint bit like working a pinball machine; it takes a nice judgment of speed. Last week a group of University of California scientists led by Professor Glenn Seaborg told how they created Element 98, which stands six steps up the periodic table (of chemical elements) from uranium, the heaviest natural element. They did it by shooting alpha particles (helium nuclei) at curium, another synthetic element, No. 96, created by a Seaborg group...
Things picked up a little last year as the Navy began ordering land-based patrol planes, pilotless aircraft and other equipment. (Martin's current backlog of military orders: about $75 million.) To help get the company squarely back on its feet, aging (64) President Glenn Martin moved himself up as chairman and brought in 43-year-old C. C. (for Chester Charles) Pearson, a onetime executive of Douglas Aircraft and a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, as his successor. With a sharp eye on overhead, Pearson sold off Martin's sidelines and managed...