Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denis, 61, opened the International Dance Festival at Lee, Mass, with the same program in which she made her New York debut 35 years ago. "Many Oriental dancers reach their prime at 60," she pointed out. ∙∙ Gypsy Rose Lee, who has turned author, written The G-String Murder Mystery for fall publication, declared in Detroit: "No more movies or Broadway for me. I like the saloons, where I can work as long as I want to and lay off when I want to. ∙∙ Matinee Idol Francis Lederer married Marion Irvine four days after his exwife, Marge...
Friends of the Governor said he plans to make his entry into Washington, after an official canvass on July 14, in typical O'Daniel style, escorted by his dome-topped sound truck (a replica of Texas' Capitol), his famed string band, and Texas Rose to sing the Governor's song, Beautiful Texas. Along the way, he expects to stop in Kansas, where he grew up, at Malta, Ohio, where he was born...
After painstaking rehearsals, Mr. Bechet went to the Victor studios with his tenor and soprano saxophones, string bass, drums, clarinet. The piano was already there. He recorded each instrument's part separately, listening to and recording the preceding part as he played the next one (see cut, p. 40), The six parts were progressively dubbed together. "Man!" cried Mr. Bechet, when the job was done. "That ends three months of torture...
...loped around the bases amid a deafening roar, the 26-year-old Yankee Clipper left in his wake the broken fragments of one of baseball's immortal records. Di Maggio had just hit safely in his 45th successive game, bettering the fabulous string of 44 spun by wondrous Wee Willie Keeler (who "hit 'em where they ain't") 44 years...
...week's end, Di Maggio had stretched his string to 48 successive games and was still going...