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...month ago Tommy began to enlarge his arranging staff, adding Sy Oliver and one other, making four full-time men working for him, the largest staff in the country. But the catch is that Sy Oliver formerly played trumpet for Jimmy Luncefor, and is an arranger in the best Kanas City powerhouse style. More than this, Oliver specializes in a very different Casa Loma type of technical arrangement that demands a well-kuit band...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

Gwaed y groes sy'n codi fyni R'eiddil yn goncwerwr mawr Gwaed y groes sydd yn ddarostwng Gewri cedyrn ffyrdd I llawr Gad m'i deimlo Awel o galfaria fryn* So sang Secretary of Labor James John Davis one night last week over the radio from Washington. It was an old, old hymn which his mother Esther used to sing to him as a little boy in Wales, whence he emigrated to Pittsburgh 48 years ago. Grym y groes (The Power of the Cross) is the favorite song of all Welsh revivals. The Singing Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Singing Secretary | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...morning not long ago a college professor called on Dempsey at his hotel. He was Dr. Albert P. Sy, professor of anatomy at the University of Buffalo, and he asked the champion to come to the college and deliver a series of lectures on physical culture and muscular development...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMPSEY JUST ESCAPED COLLEGE PROFESSORSHIP | 2/3/1925 | See Source »

DRAMATIS PERSONAE - Arthur Sy-mons-Bobbs, Merrill ($2.00). A book of essays on such subjects as Conrad, Emily Bronte, the Decadent Movement in Literature, On French and English Fiction, Leonardo da Vinci, that are distinguished more by a mild charm of manner than by any signs of hard thinking or remarkable critical skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Books: Feb. 25, 1924 | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

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