Word: xaviere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjects as music appreciation and square dancing but also point-shaving for gamblers, had Bradley sent a team east from Peoria to try its luck in the N.I.T. Determined to bring back Bradley's basketball pride, the team had started off with a Garden scoring record by trouncing Xavier 116-81, toying with Temple 94-66 to reach the final...
...former roller-skating rink-cost $2,250,000 to build, can accommodate 5,000 people (more than twice the former capacity), and offers a purple-and-cerise tentlike décor that creates a definite harem effect. However, the emphasis is still on good dance music (next attraction: Xavier Cugat); rock-'n'-roll is banned, and Owner Brecker hopes to move on to a whole new type of clientele. The old Roseland was advertised only in the tabloids, but the new establishment will run regular ads in The New Yorker, where, presumably, they will appeal not only...
...Manie, who looks like a rough draft of Frank Sinatra, learned show business as an actors' agent (show biz lingo: "flesh peddler") for the Music Corp. of America, then took over bookings for Columbia Records. In that job, he successfully persuaded Dinah Shore, Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Xavier Cugat to switch their recording allegiance to Columbia from RCA Victor. In 1950, Manie himself switched to RCA Victor, and brought in his wake a batch of loyal recording stars...
...Franz Xavier Philipp, Vienna correspondent for East Germany's Communist news agency ADN, and a former longtime editor of the Soviet-sponsored Berlin daily Tägliche Rundschau. Philipp also wa fired for refusal to slant stories of th Hungarian fighting, denied ADN's charge that he was working for the U.S. Secret Service...
Married. Francis X. (for,Xavier) Bushman, 73, great lover of silent films (Ben Hur, Graustark), who made' $6,000,000 in his heyday (1911-18); and Mrs. Iva Millicent Richardson, 53; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...