Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modified Wellesley. Songstress Lea (from Leacock) is bedeviled by the fact that her singing reminds people of Lovelorn Jazz Singer Lee Wiley-a matter of pleasure to others and pride to herself, but bothersome nonetheless. She stands quietly before her audience, looking sweet-faced as the college girl she recently was, smiling a slow, shy smile. Her singing voice is satisfyingly low, delightfully sandy, bewitchingly intimate, and her vocal style is almost like speaking, conveying a rare sense of lucidity and conviction. She sings many-too many-unfamiliar numbers, e.g., You Irritate Me So, This Is Where Love Walked...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Tatum, 46, beefy, almost-blind jazz piano master (Tea for Two, Wee Baby Blues, Sweet Lorraine), who knew and played classical piano as well as he did boogie, worked out a complex, polyrhythmic style somewhere in between, backed it up with a technique considered the best in jazz; of uremia; in Los Angeles. Jazzman Tatum slugged down enormous quantities of beer as he played, preferred to work solo ("A band hampers me"). The late, great Fats Waller once commented : "That Tatum ... is just too good...
Died. Victor Young, 56, composer who wrote the scores for more than 300 films (Around the World in So Days, The Quiet Man, Shane), turned out song hits (Sweet Sue, Ghost of a Chance) on the side; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...
Down & Up. As rumors spread on Bay Street that the Toronto Stock Exchange would probably suspend Chatco, the speculators sold thousands of shares short, figuring that the suspension would knock down the price of Chatco as it did Great Sweet Grass Oils only three weeks before (TIME, Nov. 5). But the short sellers made one big mistake: they failed to realize that Chatco has only 160,000 shares outstanding. Shannon owned about 36,000 shares, and the Leonhardt interests a big chunk of the rest, leaving few shares around for trading. When the suspension was announced, the stock dropped from...
...gilt and boar prizes, Wes Patrick's success pattern has been sure and steady. Even before his June 1953 high-school graduation, he persuaded his father to let him work part of the family farm, planted six acres of oats and crimson clover, planted ten acres of sweet potatoes and corn and marketed ten hogs. He finished the first year by copping county awards in corn production and winter grazing. In 1953. after his father, Paul Patrick. 53. had moved to another farm. Wes bought the 130-acre family farm for $10,400, promising to pay in installments...