Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until recently, certain common qualities carried over from their Crescent City days. Most of them hailed from families steeped in musical tradition, and as a matter of course were well grounded in the fundamentals of their instruments. That is why Eddie Miller is famed as the man with cleanest tone in the saxophone playing business, and why Irv Fazola was able to get a job as soloist with the technically high faluting Claude Thornhill aggregation...
...Cherbourg, he has been the darling of the French air waves, broadcasting as many as five shows a week throughout France. He spoke knowingly of American jive, presented France's best recorded jazz hot, got as many as 400 fan letters a week. The French liked the tone of his voice, and thought his Yankee accent charming...
...nearly $3,000,000. He plugged one thing, Irium (patented name for sodium alkyl sulphate, a cleaning agent), picked the right man to help do it. The man: Bob Hope. Luckman spotted him in a Broadway musical, offered to sponsor him on the air if he would tone down his smart-alecky manner. Hope refused. But after he had flopped with another sponsor, he meekly went back to see Luckman. Now Hope is signed to a ten-year Pepsodent contract at $20,000 a week (Hope's net after paying off the rest of the show: about...
...inventor of a twelve-tone harmonic system still lives in Los Angeles, though he was retired from the U.C.L.A. faculty nearly two years ago. ("I was 70. The actual age of retirement is 65, but they made an exception. But even so ... I could have gone on; it was cruel.") He is finishing the last act of an opera about "Aaron as the statesman and Moses the philosopher," which he laid aside in 1932 because he got out of the mood. In the next five years he intends to complete five books, two of them on counterpoint. He usually...
...Hollywood in 1937, wrote background scores for movies, gained fame chiefly for marrying (and being divorced by) Martha Raye and Judy Garland. On the side, he knocked out some good modern melodies: Holiday for Strings, One Love. The Chicago Symphony played his three full-length symphonic tone poems-Ensenada Escapade, Shadows, Nostalgia...