Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Building a Team. The Democrat most obviously affected by the changed situation is Adlai Stevenson, now 55, the 1952 nominee and the party's present front runner. While Stevenson himself was vacationing in Jamaica recently, his followers were in full swing. Chicago Attorney Stephen Mitchell, former Democratic National Chairman, was spending a third of his time politicking for Stevenson -and giving free rein to his own ambition to be governor of Illinois. One of Mitchell's law partners, Hy Raskin, was working full-time on behalf of Stevenson...
Lennie Niehaus, Vol. Ill (Contemporary LP). A distinctive-sounding octet, identifiable by its deep-pile texture, its gentle but unmistakable swing, the oddball humor of its sudden pauses and the curious mutter of its counterpoint...
...both Northern and Southern knitting mills, looms are now weaving stretch yarn into men's briefs, women's girdles, T shirts, gloves, bandages, figure-tight bathing suits, swing-free golf shirts, skintight dancer's leotards, baby rompers that will grow with the infant, and long-wearing panties that will fit any girl between two and eight...
...market now (Learnin' the Blues) that is pushing 800,000 and another (Young at Heart) that is over the million mark. Furthermore, he is "the only pop singer who is a smash success in the album market." His three recent albums (Songs for Young Lovers, Swing Easy, and In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning) have reportedly sold 250,000 copies at $4.98 apiece...
...campaign. In a five-page letter to its dealers Columbia explained that the record clubs are offering "the tremendous inducements . . . heretofore unheard of royalty guarantees" to artists in an effort to lure them away from the big companies. The only way to meet this competition. Columbia decided, was to swing a club of its own, and it offered dealers 20% of the retail price of records bought by every new member they bring in. Columbia is tooled up to service 500,000 subscribers (about 5% of U.S. LP phonograph owners) with performances by Columbia's own stars in jazz...