Word: soloings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vocal break by Ray McKinley and family (COLUMBIA). . . . DECCA has issued an album of Count Basie piano, accompanied by Freddie Green, Joe Jones, and Walter Page. Just the thing for those who want to dig a rhythm section that doesn't have to sweat in order to swing. . . . Best solo of the week comes from Eugene Cedric's tenor sax, on My Mommie Sent Me To The Store, a BLUEBIRD recording by Fats Waller. . . . Charlie Barnet's arrangement of Night and Day (BLUEBIRD), gives new life to the old tune. The reverse, Wild Mab of the Fish Pond, features some...
Flying 50 or 60 horse power Cubs or Taylorcraft, students in the primary course have begun training in half-hour intervals. After the solo, which is usually permitted after eight hours of dual instruction, students will fly in three-quarter hour periods for the next three hours, when they will begin to fly for an hour at a time until the course is completed...
...Edgar, Prenny Willetts, and last season's Freshman combination of Herskovits and Jack Calhoun, the team kept up the offensive almost every minute. A successful penalty kick by Bill Edgar put Harvard ahead and gave his teammates the needed confidence. It wasn't long before Jack Calhoun on a solo attempt kicked in another tally. Then as the last minutes were ticking away Herskovits and Calhoun settled the matter by joining together and blocking a kick by the Tufts' goalie, causing the last score...
German pilots shot down last week admitted they had had as little as 45 hours of solo flying, and men with 100 hours considered themselves seasoned fighters. But there was an ominous interpretation even for this hope: poorly trained men were being deliberately used for short-hop, preliminary suicide bombing, the veterans being saved for something fiercer. So far as anyone knew, Hermann Goring, who was reported this week to have piloted a Junkers bomber over London, had not yet this week taken the wraps off a great big package: the Fourth Air Army...
...survive a month of elimination training at Floyd Bennett, they will become cadets and learn to fly for the U. S. Navy at its great Pensacola Training Station. In the mean time they will have received ten hours of dual flight instruction, will get doused with water after they solo. If they then survive seven and a half months at Pensacola, they will acquire the Navy's wings of gold, the rank of ensign, monthly pay of $125 to $205. Then all they will have to do is keep their wings clean, fly from shore stations or aircraft carriers...