Word: lester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What comes out of Lester Young's saxophone sounds to some people like a snow shovel being dragged along a bare sidewalk. Peewee Russell's distinctive improvisations have been compared to those of a dying quail. But neither simile is apropos in the case of Bud Freeman. His playing is not as raucous as Young's nor as feeble as Russell's. It is subdued, vibratoed, and a little raspy like the sound of an electric shaver after it has been dropped a couple of times...
...settle the stock-ownership dispute, a long legal fight was in prospect. Meanwhile, Mary and Charlie were busy lining up more pictures for U.A. with independent producers. Mary, in a new company formed with Lester Cowan (G.I. Joe), planned to produce four pictures of her own next year. She'd show that David...
...Laude: Robert Gregory Conley, (Government), Paul Wentworth Cook, (History and Literature), Francis Lester Dawson Jr., (General Studies). Donald Carl Johnson, (Economics), Frank Robinson Lacy Jr., (General Studies...
Gypsy Lady (music by Victor Herbert ; book by Henry Myers; produced by Edwin Lester) has turn-of-the-century music and a brand-new book, and it's hard to say which seems older. There is no question which seems pleasanter: the tunes borrowed from Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller and The Serenade are melodious and nicely sung. But they are not quite pleasant enough to offset the damp-towel libretto or save an evening...
...Washington, replacing Ambassador Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, went Humphrey Hume Wrong* (he eschews the "Humphrey"), who has been called "about the closest thing to an aristocrat Canada is capable of producing...