Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Bonanza. In Vienna, with $4,000 inherited from an uncle, Landon arranged for the recording of four rarely heard Haydn symphonies by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, led by young U.S. Conductor Jonathan Sternberg. Then he hit a bonanza; he persuaded a friend to invest $13,000 in the Haydn Society...
The top popular singers of 1949 held their own in 1950. Last week, with returns in from their annual jazz-fan polls, both Down Beat and Metronome found that rubber-throated Billy Eckstine and sultry-voiced Sarah Vaughan again led all the rest.
The taste in jazz bands had changed a bit, if only slightly: up into first place, nosing out last year's favorite, Woody Herman, went Progressive Jazzman Stan Kenton. For the second time in Down Beat, blind British Pianist George Shearing and his Quintet won the "best instrumental combo...
Among the oldtimers, Bing Crosby dropped from third to sixth place in Down Beat's poll, and tumbled from twelfth to 17th in Metronome's.
If the pilot needs to maneuver violently, he merely "overrides" the autopilot. When the crisis is past, the autopilot takes charge again. It will also "couple" to radio signals and bring the jet down safely to a fog-covered field.