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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Briggs & Briggs is set for the usual rush on music. The classics are expected to comprise 70 percent of the holiday trade, as they did last year, and in deference to this, the window is packed with records of symphony and opera. For those who plan to give someone a television set, the Briggs basement is the place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Spirit Catches Square; Merchants Finish Holiday Trim Job | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

...yard individual medley has been added to the usual meet events this year. The 1948 schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks Prepares Yard Swimmers For Eight Meets | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

...short period last year, the whistler took up yodeling instead of his usual acts, but received what was probably the surprise of his life when Nancy Burns '50 yodeled right back at him from the other end of the line. He has not been known to yodel since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unidentified Caller Plagues 'Cliffe Anew | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

...year ago last summer, they worked up a bouncy little tune for Bob Hope to twang to Jane Russell while leading a covered-wagon train in a western called The Paleface. Record companies recorded it, then held back on it, as usual, until about ten to twelve weeks before the movie was due for release. Last September the record companies began to let it spin. By last week, Dinah Shore's record of Buttons and Bows was No. 1 on the hit parade. It was just the songwriters' good fortune that by the time their tune finally came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Buttons & Bows | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...topflight admen who gathered last week at the annual eastern conference of the American Association of Advertising Agencies were not as cocky as usual. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the worried talk was all of television. Griped one adman: "The host of mysticism built up around television has top management scared stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: High-Priced Revolution | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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