Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Albert Einstein's Relativity, a Popular Exposition...
...head of the American church, refuses to grant Moscow's Patriarch even spiritual authority. "I wouldn't trust any Bolshevik," he mutters. But not all North American bishops share his contempt for the Patriarch's difficult and dangerous game of pattycake with the Kremlin. Explained handsome, popular young Bishop John of Brooklyn last week...
...reports, had just finished eight solid days of recording. The Andrews Sisters, who normally record 24 sides a year, would make nearly that many in the next six weeks. Crosby and Sinatra master platters were stacked ceiling-high. RCA-Victor had enough classical masters to last 25 years. Popular bandleaders were canceling fat dance dates to squeeze in recording dates. Everyone was getting set for the ban on record-making that James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the Musicians' Union, had ordered...
...ration out the hits, a few at a time. By waxing tunes from unreleased movies and upcoming Broadway musicals, there were plenty of songs to go around. At least half a dozen singers and orchestras are scheduled to make recordings of Stravinsky's Summer Moon (TIME, Nov. 3). Popular-music fans might miss a few flash novelties like Open the Door, Richard!, which come from nowhere, but they would hear many a new version of "standards" like Stardust...
Franck: Symphonic Variations (Eileen Joyce, pianist, with 1'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Charles Münch conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). Few could excel Walter Gieseking's fine performance of this popular work; Miss Joyce didn't. Recording: good...