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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...Claus was reached only by following a labyrinth of railings designed to keep a large crowd in an orderly line. Luckily, there was almost no line, and when Santa had taken care of three serious-faced youngsters. I asked him how he liked his job. "Why, it's the sweetest job I've ever had. Just sitting here all day. Sure, and it'd suit me foine if it lasted clear 'til June...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...band went back to the sweet and swoony, and it was lucky they did. The Chicago Herald & Examiner's redoubtable Critic Ashton Stevens covered the performance, closed his review with the line that, for dancers, has identified Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians through two decades: "The sweetest music this side of heaven." Probably because Guy has kept it the same old sweet and danceable way ever since, he has survived-while ripplers, swingsters, hoppers and scoffers who called him the "King of Corn" fell by the wayside. And because he survived, and earned a reputation as a "sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Same Old Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Concluded 63-year-old Wilhelm Furtwängler: "Tonality is the last, sweetest flower of European culture ... As a musician, I remain a partisan of tonality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Partisans on the Podium | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...them"). Apparently, sweet, slurred stuff is just as acceptable to him as hot jazz. His favorite "listening band" for years has been Guy Lombardo's-and Louis doesn't care how many jazz pedants faint when they hear it; "Guy Lombardo advertises the 'sweetest music this side of heaven' and that's what he plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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