Word: victors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MOZART: QUINTET FOR CLARINET & STRINGS (K. 581). (Benny Goodman and the Budapest String Quartet; Victor: 8 sides.) One evening last winter, a Victor representative introduced bespectacled Benny Goodman, No. 1 U. S. swingster, to the famed Budapest String Quartet, world's No. 1 chamber-music team. Goodman knew about them; they had never heard of him. When they discovered how well he played the clarinet they suggested that he join them in making a record or two. "Have you ever made records before?" inquired the Budapesters. "Yes, a few," said Goodman, "in fact, I have a band." "Indeed...
...holding the spacing in a power drive. From here on it was the Crimson's race to row as they pleased, and Chace lifted the beat to 38 before the winning shell went over the line. Columbia slammed across at 41, clocking in 7:55 to the victor...
...this penumbra of exceptions and compromises is jazz. Though officially condemned by Nazi authorities, it has never been absolutely banned. Negro jazz bands are not permitted; swing music has been publicly damned. But records by Josephine Baker, Guy Lombardo. Victor Young, Benny Goodman, Leo Reisman are still selling in Germany, as are the sheet-music compositions of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. And British-born "sweet" Jazzband Leader Jack Hylton recently finished a two-month engagement at one of Berlin's variety show houses...
...Yellow Jack was being released last week, the Satevepost published a searching review of the yellow-fever problem entitled Yellow Jack Breaks Jail, by Physician Victor G. Heiser. Its discouraging findings were that the enigma of yellow fever has not yet, after all, been completely solved. Theory has been that the Aedes mosquito was the only carrier, and that the virus required a human host. But exhaustive research has since proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is not the only carrier, and that men are not the only hosts to the yellow fever virus; that it can be harbored...
...Victor (Will Fyffe, Margaret Lockwood. John Loder; TIME. April...