Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does to some of his own ideas (VICTOR)...Benny Goodman's latest twelve inch recording, Superman, is another elaborate Eddie Sauter orchestration, and features Cootie Williams pyrotechnics all the way through. There's also some tenor sax by Georgie Auld, who gets the same dirty tone out of his horn that Benny likes to use (COLUMBIA)... Metronome's 1941 All Star band has recorded One O'Clock Jump and Bugle Call Rag for VICTOR. Coupling can't help but be good, but unfortunately they have to squeeze in a chorus for everybody. Consequently, one man will just be getting...
...City before the accident, but he had a letter from a trusted aficionado there, and this man's account ran as follows: Balderas had indeed had a great success with his first bull. . . . But before he killed, he was caught and tossed. He was not gored, but the horn had ripped one leg of his breeches. He was thus behind the barrera, having the tear mended, when the next bull, drawn by one of the two other matadors, came out. . . . Balderas decided to go out and take the bull over. ... He need not have done this, and that...
...ASCAP would never get a percentage of the networks' gross for its music. Equally firm was Mr. Buck that ASCAP would not agree to a per-program arrangement dictated by B. M. I. Whatever happens B. M. I. will have to watch its step. One flourish on a horn of an ASCAP copyrighted tune may mean a minimum penalty of $250 for every station that broadcasts...
...Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named Jean Casto, wearing horn-rimmed goggles and a tweedy sports ensemble, stops the show with the neatest trick of the musical-comedy year-a satire on a strip-tease in which she removes nothing more than her overcoat...
...workers vacation bonuses. Two days later Briggs Manufacturing (automobile bodies) announced $40 bonuses and 2/ wage increases for 19,000 men. Other bonuses-of-the-fortnight: A & P stores, $1,500,000; International Shoe, $600,000; Glenn L. Martin aircraft, $500,000; Procter & Gamble, $500,000; Horn & Hardart (automats), $340,000; Royal Metal Manufacturing Co. of Chicago...