Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soon (Duke Ellington; Decca). Vocal by honey-voiced Mildred Bailey, with Herman Chittison and Dave Barbour accompanying on the piano and guitar...
Chief publicist of the campaign is Chicago's bouncing Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen. He has made frequent headlines by running "diet derbies," endorsing sauerkraut juice for health, giving his blood to sick babies, opposing the construction of a skyscraper because it would shut off sunlight from the streets. Since the best way to fight syphilis is to drag it into the open, Dr. Bundesen and aids have pulled down Chicago's syphilis rate in the last three years from...
...George Herman Ruth (ne Gerhardt), New York's happy-go-lucky Bambino, broke fewer records but drew more fans. He too could break up a ball game singlehanded. Before he became the "Sultan of Swat," the Babe was a good southpaw for the Boston Red Sox. In two World Series (1916 and 1918), he pitched a total of 29 consecutive innings without allowing a run. Twice, in later World Series, he hit three home runs in one game. Ruth once scored 60 homers in one season...
...Philip Lyford, Mrs. Frederick Anthony Keyes, Mrs. Prentiss Nathaniel Gray, Mrs. Augustus Francis Gardela, Mrs. William Prentice Willetts, Mrs. David Herman Shulman, Mrs. Robert Gordon Paine, Mrs. John Edward Mansfield...
...first program, Salon Swing, Miss Crane put an obscure pianist, a vocal quintet, a small hot band-Negroes all. The pianist, light-fingered Kentuckian Herman Chittison, won fame in Europe during the past decade, leading bands and swinging Chopin and Schubert at the. keyboard. It took Louise Crane seven months to track him down in Manhattan. The five vocalists chose an appalling name for their collective debut: the Sophistichords. But they deftly turned English and European songs inside out, kidded the pants off the clown's teary air from Pagliacci. The band of the evening, John Kirby...