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...much better, with the improvisers given more of a chance. Except for a disorganized finale, it's perhaps unequalled in four years of these all-star sessions.... The new Columbia Roswell Sisters album officers the best jazz singing by a trio that can be heard today: Their interpretations far surpass in vitality and harmonic interest anything the Andrews Sisters can do. Connic Boswell's arrangements have the jazz idiom down pat. "Everybody Loves My Baby" is perhaps the best of the sides, for it includes a great trumpet solo by Bunny Berigan as well as the rousing antics...
Employees have surpassed their mark of $4,800 set last year with contributions already reaching $5,549. At the same time Faculty returns have slowed up so that the total of the department had only advanced to $21,849 by last night. Chairman Perkins felt assured, however, that they would surpass their last-year total...
Recently the Committee became a part of still another Commission for the study of English. But it is still growing and knows that there need be no fear of the future, since the group has Bernard Shaw's word for it that Basic English versions of Shavian masterpieces surpass the originals in many places...
...risen 75% to $1.70 a bushel, despite the record crop. Chief reasons: 1) demand for soybean oils in Lend-Lease's fats-for-Britain program; 2) low cotton-crop estimates foreshadow a low production of cottonseed oils. As a cash crop soybeans this year will almost equal potatoes, surpass citrus fruits, surpass in fact any other crop except the big four, cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco...
Hermann Oelrichs was no exception. His wife, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, began the building of Rosecliff when there were already some mighty mansions to surpass. Stanford White designed the house; Augustus Saint Gaudens built the outer court, patterned after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. There she gave her most famous party, the Bal Blanc, arranged by Ward McAllister, attended by the 400, and costing Mr. Oelrichs $30,000. Into Rosecliff she packed what Henry James called the "loot" of Europe: Gobelin tapestries, cloisonné vases, Renaissance statuary, Jacobean furniture, Sèvres china, paintings, libraries, silver sets, visiting aristocrats...