Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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From Berkeley to Cambridge, the wartime baby boom has already hit the country's 100 big-name colleges, and especially those in the East. Last week, as the annual waiting season began, Princeton reported a 20% rise in applications for next fall, "the greatest single jump we've ever had in a year." Yale will cull 1,000 freshmen from 4,800 fee-paid applications, 500 more than last year. Harvard has 5,000 final applicants, a record boost of 900 over last year. Yet freshman classes remain the same size. Harvard will actually...
After his cross-country tours and the fabulous success of his various recordings of Hot Sugar Blues (which sold more than 5,000,000 disks), he retired wealthy in 1955, was lured back only by the new Dixieland boom...
...boom is everywhere. San Francisco now has Earl ("Fatha") Hines, Kid Ory and Marty Marsala. Chicago has Art Hodes, Bill Reinhardt, Franz Jackson and his Dixieland All-Stars, a popular and authentic group, the average age of whose members is 65. In New Orleans the big names are Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Mike Lala. And almost anywhere the Dukes of Dixieland can be heard. "The customers," explains one jazz critic, "like to get loaded and imitate trombones...
...Kubitschek ran in a three-way race against weak candidates; Lott is up against ex-Schoolteacher Janio Quadros, who in a few years rose from obscurity to become the new-broom governor of Sao Paulo, spark of Brazil's industrial boom. Quadros kicks off his shoes on the stump, spills ashes on his shirt and works the crowd to frenzy. His program is honest government, slashing bureaucracy, building roads and power plants, and turning private enterprise loose for progress. He describes his own nationalism as "grownup, vaccinated and old enough to vote." Quadros' main handicap: the streak...
...crediting Editor Morrison with such influence, Light was pointing a finger at what may be the biggest boom in U.S. newspapers: education reporting, long neglected by the nation's daily press but now getting the benefit of better talent and more news space than ever before...