Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National, one of the nation's largest commercial banks. An amateur musician, artist (specialty: watercolor seascapes) and crack yachtsman (navigator of the America's Cup defender Enterprise), Aldrich is a longtime friend of Britain, was president of the British War Relief Society during World War II, helped swing Britain's first postwar loan from...
...long range $6,000,000 endowment drive forth Graduate School of Education will swing into motion Monday, Dean Francis Keppel '38 announced yesterday...
Director Hermon More, who helped put the show together, disagrees with the critics. He sees no strong hints of a swing toward more representational art. He culled some 1,500 paintings for the show, had to "lean over backwards to get more realistic painters." Most of those he found were already established artists; of the unknown good enough to exhibit for the first time, 40 out of 43 were abstractionists. Says More: "It's hard to find a young artist under 30 these days who paints in any style other than abstract...
...Will the minority vote swing away from the Democrats? One predominantly Jewish precinct in Philadelphia gave Stevenson a heavier lead than it gave Truman...
...late '30s were the good vintage years for swing, and the demand for the real stuff goes up as the supply disappears. Two years ago, Columbia reached back among the cobwebs and, to the cheers of the connoisseurs, issued a transcript of Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. The best news for swing fans since that occasion is Columbia's new album: Jazz Concert No. 2-a transcription of 37 tunes performed by Goodman and his gang on radio programs in 1937-38. The gang is all there-Gene Krupa on the drums, Harry James...