Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permanent monument to swing" is RCA Victor's phrase for its latest jazz album, A Symposium of Swing. Its four twelve-inch discs contain selections by four swing bands: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, "Fats" Waller, Bunny Berigan. Familiar to fans who have listened to the four in their native haunts, on the air or on records, the selections are characteristic but, to experts, not the top choices. Best disc: Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing, a free fantasia in swing, based on the tune Christopher Columbus, with Drummer Gene Krupa battering out an expert tympanic melody...
...Problems of the Planetary Nebulae" will be discussed at an astronomical symposium to be held at the Observatory at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Dr. J. C. Duncan, of Wellesley College, Dr. F. L. Whipple, and Mr. Lawrence Aller will speak...
...flattered when Will Durant included her, along with celebrities ranging from Benito Mussolini to Mary Garden, in a sober symposium on Life. (She wrote: "For me, life is interesting, entertaining, happy, if only I can have some activity for the restlessness that is in my heart...
...expedition is a direct result of the discussions arising at the International Symposium on Early Man, held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in celebration of its 125th anniversary last March...
Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, like Manhattan's American Museum, is also out to raise millions. But this is a new idea. Until last March when he conducted an astonishingly successful Symposium on Early Man, Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader, 51, the museum's unpaid managing director thought of raising merely $374,915 from other rich Philadelphians "for a five-year educational program." Up went Mr. Cadwalader's imagination and requests to $10,000,000 for endowment and $8,000,000 for a new building. And the trustees of this oldest (125 years) museum of natural...