Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French-born conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was seeing through a beefsteak, darkly. While watching his first baseball game in Hancock, Me. he was bopped in the eye by a foul ball. But along with the shiner he acquired wisdom: "Now I understand why baseball is so popular. Even when you only watch it, you are part of the game...
...commission appointed by Coventry's Bishop Neville Vincent Gorton announced this week what they had found to be the popular feeling: Coventry should be rebuilt in the English Gothic form with a traditional stone nave vault and plenty of stained glass. Since the job will take years, the architect should be young. Above all, added the commission, the new cathedral "should not be in violent contrast...
...than ever. Periodically since 1942, Elmo Roper pollsters have asked a nationwide sampling of citizens: what group "do you feel is doing the most good for the country at the present time?" In five years, the "religious leaders" category has jumped from third to first place. Chief source of popular disenchantment: Government leaders. How the nation's leaders rate (in percentages) with the people...
...singing market is golden but unpredictable. Few European popular singers have successfully invaded it. Those who have usually accent their accents and bill themselves as Continental style. But last week a well-built English girl named Beryl Davis, with a purry voice and a nice sense of rhythm, started out to succeed the American way. She got off to a good start...
Fresh from England, as a guest on the Bob Hope radio show, she had caught the easy-to-catch but hard-to-hold ear of burly Eli Oberstein, who bosses all popular records at RCA-Victor. Victor was badly in need of a girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until...