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Word: herman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...HERMAN LOCKHART...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...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" title. For the ninth time, Spike Jones was elected "King of Corn." Runner-up: Guy Lombardo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Winners | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Bless You All (music & lyrics by Harold Rome; sketches by Arnold Auerbach; produced by Herman Levin and Oliver Smith) is sometimes pleasant but never for long. Virtually everyone connected with it has more to boast of than the show itself. It's brightly colored but badly tended; the whole thing needs weeding, even the better things need watering. It looks about as a Broadway revue should look-perhaps in New Haven-three weeks before it opens on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue In Manhattan, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

From U.S. writers, there were few outstanding literary biographies, little notable poetry and even less first-rate literary criticism. Newton Arvin's Herman Melville was the best critical study of the year, brief, intelligent and splendidly informed; Edmund Wilson's Classics and Commercials was a good, stimulating collection of minor pieces by the best of U.S. working critics. Poet Robert Frost was much honored, but no poetry was published that promised a likely successor to him. Carl Sandburg's Complete Poems contained 72 newly collected ones that showed the same minstrel's virtues and poetic limitations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 has telegraphed the Yale football coach, Herman Hickman, asking for the loan of an English bulldog for Thursday night's opening of the club's show, "Buddha Knows Best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pudding Wires for Dog | 12/7/1950 | See Source »

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