Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hess at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, that Hess had planned to approach him because before the war he was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship. The Duke's younger brother, also a flier, had worked in Nazi labor camps, married the strong-through-joy Hon. Prunella Stack, physical culturist and Nazi favorite...
...close to agreement that they decided to call the Mediation Board and ask to be left alone a few hours. The Board said "Fine." By next morning, the disputants had found a formula for a settlement. The union bought the drinks. President MacFarlane chartered a bus for a joy ride around the city, blew them all to dinner before they entrained again for Minneapolis...
...Every recording studio has, for its popular output, a mastermind who can spot a hit tune, lead an orchestra, tell whether a "take" (trial recording) is any good. Victor's mastermind is twinkling-eyed Leonard Joy, who has been in the game for 15 years. Last week his latest bossing and conducting job was on the counters: an album of songs and dialogue from the Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin musicomedy, Lady in the Dark, recorded by the star of the show, Gertrude Lawrence (6 sides; $2). Between this one and Decca's earlier album by Hildegarde, there...
...Leonard Joy, there was nothing complicated about recording with Actress Lawrence. He has conducted for singers since the early Duncan Sisters days (1926). Leonard Joy's most trying recording session was for Eddie Cantor's Now's the Time to Fall in Love, when between the countless jittery "takes" the orchestra rushed to telephones: it was Wall Street's "Black Friday" in September 1929. Conductor Joy has had an arranger (Cornetist Del Staigers) who once, everyone swears, fell asleep on an arranging job, completed it satisfactorily before he woke. There was a trumpeter who had aerophobia...
...British Legation. "Who's here?" said a jubilant voice. "Bloody well everybody. We're having champagne. Come on." But Ray Brock had more to do that morning. In the streets he was caught up in what he described as "the most moving and heartfelt demonstration of pure joy and thanksgiving that this correspondent has ever seen...