Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record industry, which is not finding the livin' in the singles market easy, hopes to ease some of its pain this summer with massive LP infusions of George Gershwin, massively publicized by a full throated chorus of movie and record company pressagents. With Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess about to be released, the record makers have pressed nearly 30 Porgy albums, ranging in style from Overstuffed Country Club to Tubular Cool. Columbia has issued excerpts from the sound track with Cab Calloway dubbed in as Sportin' Life in place of Sammy Davis Jr., who sings...
...president for the coming year, the delegates elected Dr. Herbert Gezork, 58, onetime leader of the German Baptist Youth Movement who fled Germany in 1936 just before the Nazis closed in on him, is now president of Baptist-run Andover Newton Theological School. Delegates went on record against...
...baseball history, only two men had ever hit four consecutive home runs in one game. * But one night last week, in Baltimore's vast Memorial Stadium, Cleveland Outfielder Rocco Domenico Colavito stepped out of a batting slump and into the record books with four mighty swings of his 33-oz. bat. His fourth straight homer, a long blast into the left-field bleachers some 410 ft. away, came in the ninth inning off Baltimore Orioles Reliefer Ernie Johnson, who had not allowed a homer all season. What was more, Colavito brought off his feat in a park rated...
...most respected in baseball. In fact, it is so good that the Indians have actually used him as a pitcher on occasion. A modest and religious man, Rocky admits he heard a fan yelling at him after the third homer to go for the record. "I looked up to heaven and said, 'Dear God, I'm not greedy. I'll be happy if I can get a single next time.' I always talk to God. He's been good...
...exception. It was Gide's luck and genius to do a few things extremely well. In The Counterfeiters, he wrote a novel that must rank in any top-ten list of the 20th century. The four volumes of his Journals are a matchless record of self-search and self-revelation. Renowned as a man of letters, Gide was perhaps more influential and controversial as a kind of culture hero of his time. His cult of untrammeled self-expression spawned flocks of disciples who had little self to express and even less talent for expressing it. What Gide possessed that...