Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere the long arm of "Oklahoma" reaches in and dictates the style. One of Rodgers' best songs, "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" sounds a good deal like "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and several others like "You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan" and "What's the Use of Wondrin'?" though nowhere nearly so tuneful as their predecessors have a definite touch of "Oklahoma" about them...
WINDS, BLOW GENTLY - Ronald Kirkbridge- Fell ($2.50). A family of Pennsylvania Quakers move to South Carolina, where Father Jordan's neighbors grin at his "book farming," scowl at the high wages he pays his Negroes. Gay, charming, occasionally sexy tale of farm life with social overtones...
Using the old Southern spirituals as his tools, sturdy, mild-mannered Glenn T. Settle, now 48, has made a career out of his mother's advice. This week, his famed all-Negro choir of mixed voices, the "Wings Over Jordan" chorus, is headed for a 26-week battlefront tour-the first religious musical group to be given a U.S.O. booking...
...proved that there is no U.S. color line when it comes to the old Negro hymns (Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child, etc.). For the past year, service men and their chaplains have bombarded the Rev. Mr. Settle with requests to bring "Wings Over Jordan" overseas. Good-humored preacher-director Settle is convinced that U.S. servicemen are turning to religion more & more, and he offers as proof the two songs most popular with overseas fans of his broadcasts: He'll Understand and Say Well Done and Just a Closer Walk With Thee...
...Middle East the occasion was momentous. Egypt's King Farouk was host. The delegates were Foreign Ministers or their equivalent. Trans-Jordan's Premier Samir el Refai Pasha underlined the Arabic character of the meeting. Though he wears European clothes in his native desert, he wore stunning Arab robes in Cairo. Most important, Saudi Arabia, keystone of any Pan-Arab federation and outstanding absentee at last autumn's Alexandria conference of Arab nations (TIME, Oct. 16), would attend the meeting in the person of Al Sheikh Yussef Yassin, personal secretary of King Ibn Saud. Yemen, the little...