Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind this military rug cutting was Captain Glenn Miller, late recruit from the swank hotel ballrooms and broadcasting studios. Embarking on an earnest crusade to put swing on the U.S. parade ground, Captain Miller first taught his boys to swing the military classics. Then he militarized a few items like St. Louis Blues and the Jersey Bounce. Finally he got the urge to touch up some of the late great John Philip Sousa's scores with hot licks and modern dance-hall harmonies...
...with the "V for Victory" theme from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony blown on a trumpet, then fade in with the D Major theme from the Choral Finale of Beethoven's Ninth (played by low strings). After a break for announcement of the occasion, the orchestra should swing into the complete choral finale. The rest of the program should consist of music from various United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique); Russia (Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky...
...Network is under some handicaps mainly a greatly reduced audience, but the airwaves still hum with "Swing Out" and "Shangri-la." The Student Council and PBH, of courses, stand like arm rocks in the heaving sea; but a student council meeting today looks more like a civilian Navy parley as V-12 and NROTC men fill many seats...
...most inspiring professor. When he was upset in 1920 by Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, the Phelps heyday at Yale was passing. By then Billy Phelps's literary notions were not even modern in the eyes of the sophisticated '20s. They could not agree with him that the swing of Eddie Guest's verse was "perfect," Walt Whitman "nothing but a Sears-Roebuck catalogue with calliope accompaniment."* Some of them were interested in James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis. Phelps...
Animal Kingdom. In Dallas, Mrs. J. E. Britton discovered a wolf asleep on her porch swing. In Los Angeles, Councilman Harold Harby invented a device to keep roosters from crowing by making it impossible for them to stretch their necks; when he tried it on a rooster, he found that it changed the crowing into a wail. In Clarendon, Tex., Mrs. Don Grady, fixing a chicken for dinner, discovered inside it a diamond she had lost four months be fore...