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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trumpet and cornet in Cambridge, Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke were in the national spotlight on these instruments respectively. Both are among the cornerstones of Kennedy's record collection, which also includes nearly every now priceless record Bing Crosby made before he started to groan and ceased to sing with Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRV Airs Disc Jockey Kennedy Tonight | 11/19/1947 | See Source »

After announcing the sing-up sheets would be available all this week in all dining halls, Fialkow provided a priority table of local organization which would be asked to put an artery to the wheel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood Curdling Yell Sounds Forth From P.B.H. to Set Dates for Drive | 11/18/1947 | See Source »

...Camden, N.J., two tomcats, Pitty Sing and Budgie, were formally adjudged the beneficiaries of the $36,000 estate of Sarah Y. Furber, a retired schoolmarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Here they were treated like long-lost relatives. Mary, the waitress, treats them like a "godmother," serving them a strict diet of cheeseburgers and "chocolate malted frappes." "Here we can sing until the frappes curdle, and nobody says a word," the choresters exclaim...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Dunster's Dunces Sing Almost Anything for Diners, Dancers, Barflys, Coeds, Frappes | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

Paris admires a tiny, intense chanteuse named Edith Piaf. An itinerant acrobat's daughter with a patched-skirt childhood, she specializes in songs about love-battered girls. Last week, as the star of a continental variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Famous Lady, Funny Men | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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