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...likely hallways, the music rooms have taken away the nightclub audience, but nobody is exactly sure why. The 20% federal cabaret tax plainly had something to do with it (instrumental music only, without dancing or floor show, is not considered entertainment under the law, hence is tax-free). The Vanguard's Max Gordon (who also owns a part of Manhattan's still flourishing Blue Angel supper club) blames the shift to the suburbs: "My old customers have been lost to Great Neck." Broadway Producer Richard Kollmar once accused the LP record: "When...
When the pie-shaped slice of Manhattan night life known as the Village Vanguard was getting started two decades ago. it had a performer named Judith Tuvim, who later blossomed into Judy Holliday, and the occasional services of a skinny young accompanist, fresh out of Harvard, named Leonard Bernstein. Since then more green talent has ripened in the Vanguard's cellar than in any other place in town-Folk Singers Burl Ives and Richard Dyer-Bennet. Comics Wally Cox and Roger Price, Singers Eartha Kitt and Pearl Bailey. It was the Vanguard that sent Harry Belafonte...
...polished aluminum. A closer look shows that they have an elusive iridescence, like the rainbow colors of soap bubbles. This is the only visible hint that there is something tricky about their shiny surfaces. The three balls in the Naval Research Laboratory at Washington are satellites for Project Vanguard to place on orbits circling the earth...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., April 7--Walter P. Reuther today accused the leadership of the free world with failure to understand the dimensions of war and peace and described the labor movement as the vanguard in the struggle against "Communist tyranny...
...moved on to Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School (mornings devoted to intricate work in the classrooms; afternoons to project work in the wind tunnel, propeller and engine test labs), and made a place and a future and a lot of friends for himself in the vanguard of the Air Corps' technological frontier force...