Word: sto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide, black-leather kind worn by unruly teenagers-signed up a couple of years ago by Columbia's bearded bush-beater, Mitch Miller. One of the best of the polysyllabic-vowel school, e.g., "There's a wall between us, and it's not made of sto-o-o-one/ Although we're together I feel so alo-o-o-one"), she blasts out her ballads in what, if she did not use phony electronic echo effects, would be a good voice. A $750-a-week nightclub performer (last week, Boston) who hit the charts heavily last...
...audience of sophisticates and gamblers." In 1955, with his driving, metronome sense of rhythm, he recorded a coal miner's bitter lament called Sixteen Tons ("Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company sto' "). Aided by some ingenious orchestration, it shot to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made, has sold 4,000,000 copies. His two albums of spirituals became quick and steady Top Ten sellers. With his considerable record royalties and TV fees...
...other goons who had done the job. With affidavits from Bradshaw and girl friend in hand, Brislin turned his story in to the Tribune city desk and handed over his evidence to the district attorney. Within three days all four dynamiters had con fessed. Brislin's continuing exclusive sto ries in the Tribune and a sustained editorial barrage by the Times led to grand-jury indictments against six local union leaders and four of their goons. Later Brislin turned over his files to McClellan committee investigators and even accompanied Witness Bradshaw to Washington...
...first. Americans might have tended to discount the report as just another fantastic boast about Russia. Then the sto ries began to sound more reliable, and musicians looked East with wild surmise...
proved itself well able to withstand the shocks of the cold war and the Korean war, just as the economy has continued to grow through all the troubles. Stock Exchange President Funston thinks that the more small investors who buy sto'ck not for speculation, but for the long pull, the stronger the market will beand the better it will reflect the state of the nation Says he: "Never has a business had a better opportunity to do something good for the country and at the same time for itself. It's a natural...