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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burke comes from the same North Carolina school that Hal Kemp did. In fact, he did arrangements for Kemp for a while, but found that the Goodman-Basic style was more to his liking, and so he started a band on this idea. Results are not bad, the band's first record (Vocalion) "Tea for Two" being well arranged, with some decent solos...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...wars. Last week the Federal Council of Churches issued a special 1939 Armistice Day request: let all its 131,043 constituent and cooperating churches in the U. S. set their bells a-tolling at 11:02 a.m. Object: "A protest against war . . . a prayer for peace." As amen, the North American Guild of Carillonneurs promised that all 50-odd U. S. carillons would also tintinnabulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bells, Smoke | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...scatological ballads (such as The French Crisis) as he was as a children's poet. Poet Field was nobody to conduct a Sunday school class, and would have been the first to admit it. But last week, at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in the North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, school children gathered about the tomb of Eugene Field on the day before the 44th anniversary of his death. A Boy Scout and a Girl Scout laid wreaths on the tomb. Read and sung were Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Little Boy Blue, The Drum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Comforter | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Chapel Hill, N. C., Texas-bred Ray Wolf's North Carolina boys, led by George Stirnweiss and Jim ("Sweet") Lalanne, two of Dixie's most spectacular razzle-dazzle backs, bedoozled their ancient rivals, North Carolina State, 17-to-0. Undefeated so far this season, North Carolina seemed headed for not only the Southern Conference title but its first undefeated season since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big One | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...over 600-odd contenders, the Atlantic's $5,000 non-fiction contest for 1939, should be an account of what-life-has-been-like for the long, lean, lemon-tongued, ladylike U. S. wife of British H. G. Keith, Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture of North Borneo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atlantic Wife | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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