Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year recording industry has been working overtime in recent weeks to pile up backlogs; there were trade estimates that some companies had built up a supply of unissued records for two or three years, that at least a year's supply of new popular tunes was already transcribed in Hollywood cinema libraries. And there was nothing to prevent repressing from old master records...
...cage captain Saul V. Mariaschin '46 is now roaming the pavement of Tin Pan Alley instead of the hardwood of the Indoor Athletic Building--in the hope that turning out popular songs will turn enough dollars for the long pull through Law School...
...Tell. Despite the new glitter of big names, one of the most popular narrators of "kidisks" is Los Angeles' Mrs. Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen, 74, a bright-eyed grandmother who records the folk tales of her native Norway. (In 1911, while teaching school, she wrote them down in a book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon.) She had been telling the tales to her students and grandchildren for years but did not record them until 1944, and then for the Library of Congress. When RCA Victor heard the records, it hired...
...weeks before a sponsor finally took it over. The wait was worth it: the sponsor, Lever Bros, (soap) is one of the biggest spenders in radio, and the time assigned to Irma, between Lever Bros.' big-time Lux Radio Theater and the only slightly less popular Screen Guild Players, is the second best in radio (the best: the expensive Sunday night half-hour between Jack Benny and Charlie McCarthy on NBC, now occupied by Alice Faye and Phil Harris...
...lecture tour 16 years later, when the chance came for another African "rescue." Emin Pasha, the German-born Governor of the Equatorial province, had fled to the hills after the fall of Khartoum. In England there was immense popular sympathy with his plight, and money was collected to rescue him. Stanley cut short his lecture tour to lead the expedition. His two-volume description of the epic journey was In Darkest Africa. Author Manning's less solemn account of it, based on other documents as well as Stanley's, trims its hero to life size...