Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they got Molotov's answer. In his opinion, the protest was "not solid." (Correspondents wondered if he had picked up some jive talk in the U.S. last spring.) And since it was not solid, Mr. Molotov "did not find it necessary to give it his attention...
Born. To Eddie Condon, 39, guitarist, leader of Manhattan's "pure" jazzmen (who scorn "semi-pro" canned jive and give concerts at Carnegie Hall) ; and Phyllis Reay Condon, 37, magazine writer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Liza (from the title of his first recording). Weight...
...George Gershwin read the rave reviews, gave Baritone Duncan the lead in Porgy and Bess. He has since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, floundered through a jive film called Syncopation. (Says Todd Duncan: "Hollywood's not looking for my type. Dis, dat, dese-I can learn to talk that way but not very well...
...know that high-school students prefer colored toothpaste, eat three times as many candy bars as their parents, heed Lifebuoy's "B.O." slogan oftener than Ivory's "It Floats." This and other sales-stimulating information is the merchandise they buy from Chicago's newest pollster: pollster" jive-jumping Eugene Gilbert, president of Gil-Bert Teen Age Services...
...Thousand and One Nights (Columbia) is inspired about equally by Scheherazade and Billy Rose. Spicing up the Arabian Nights with jive talk is risky business, at best-but A Thousand and One Nights mixes and very nearly succeeds in making the most of two different worlds...