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...members' making records, but they hit the top spot in late '44, when their impudent version of Cocktails for Two sold two million records. Four years later, the holiday jape All I Want for Christmas (My Two Front Teeth) sold 1.5 million copies in six weeks. Jones cinched his renown with a high-rated radio show and an exhaustive skein of one-night stands. Chester Gould and Al Kapp put him into their comic strips. Movies and TV beckoned. For a decade, Lindley Armstrong Jones was the maestro satirist of the Hit Parade -- and a crucial influence on such musicaliconoclasts...
...national renown of many members of theCollege's faculty warrant those high salaries,according to Knowles. "Our faculty are of VERY[sic] high quality," he wrote...
...Dada classic Four Saints hangs onto the fringe of the repertoire by virtue of its pigeons-on-the-grass-alas text by Stein and Thomson's proto- minimalist, oompah-pah score. Even so modest a renown is likely to elude Lord Byron, just given a handsome first recording by conductor James Bolle leading the Monadnock Festival Orchestra and a cast of mostly unknowns...
Wilbert Rideau, 51, has been imprisoned since 1962 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, serving a life sentence for murder. During that time, Rideau has gained renown as a journalist, author and advocate of prison reform. In a conversation with TIME Houston bureau chief Richard Woodbury, Rideau gave a scathing critique of the prison system...
Where Sam worked next turned out to be TIME. He joined the staff in 1988 as a correspondent in Los Angeles, became chief of the Detroit bureau and national economics correspondent based in Washington. With us, he found not only security but also renown: Gwynne and TIME correspondent Jonathan Beaty won three major awards last year for their exposes of how the Bank of Credit & Commerce International ran a one-stop shopping center for criminals, corrupt leaders and official intelligence agencies around the world. Random House will publish their jointly written book on B.C.C.I., The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride...