Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angel label reflects the decision of Britain's big and prosperous Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (which controls the catalogues of H.M.V. and British Columbia) to invade the U.S. market. With a wide-ranging selection of classical and modern music priced to meet U.S. list prices, Angel is offering its first imports this week. Among them: Ravel's Concerto in G, played by Pianist Marguerite Long (to whom Ravel dedicated it) and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, played by London's crack Philharmonia Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan, and four Beethoven sonatas, played...
...Epic label will bring to the U.S. another strong European catalogue controlled by Philips of The Netherlands. Unlike Angel, which is importing finished recordings, Epic imports master tapes, manufactures its records in the U.S. Epic's first releases concentrate on such symphonic war horses as Beethoven's Fifth, Schubert's Unfinished and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, in performances by such orchestras as Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, The Hague and Berlin Philharmonics...
After discussing social feelings about college drinking, the report moved into a study of "Beliefs about Drinking and Sexual Behavior," which prompted one columnist to label the book a "Booze Kinsey." But its sales fall far below Kinsey's records, thus indicating that society is more curious about its neighbors' bedrooms than its barrooms...
...voting footsteps: e.g., he promised wholehearted support of the Eisenhower foreign policy. Williams' Republican opponent was another Plainfield lawyer, George Hetfield. The Democratic nominee had once served as the Hetfields' baby sitter, later was a law clerk in Hetfield's office. But he quickly found a label for his old friend: "An Old Guard Republican...
...question that Brown has risen in inner Ivy circles. With its new building and educational systems, it has established itself as worthy of the Ivy League's respect. Perhaps with the expected success of its "IC" will also come some of the prestige that goes with the Ivy label...