Word: horton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They Shined Up Rudolph's Nose (Johnny Horton; Columbia). Singer Horton tries to shine up a hit of Christmas past with sheer lung power. Rudolph's nose, he assures the listeners, "is shining bright/ It looks just like a star." Horton himself has rarely looked less like...
...will succeed Mildred McAfee Horton, former president of Wellesley College, and Katheryn McNamara, librarian of the Harvard Graduate School of Design...
...Douglas Horton, Congregational clergyman, retiring dean, Harvard Divinity School...
Helen Brooke Taussig, noted for research on congenital heart disease, and Simon S. Kuznets, Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins, were each awarded the degree of Doctor of Science. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School, became an honorary Doctor of Divinity; American composer Samuel Barber, Doctor of Music; and Lawrence Terry, Headmaster of Middlesex School, received an honorary Master of Arts degree. Terry was cited as a "Rugged, kindly son of Harvard, an enlightened servant of education and school...
...Jackson on his way to the presidency. It now enjoys a third distinction as the subject of a pop disk, The Battle of New Orleans (Columbia), which has sold some threequarter million copies in less than a month. The recorded Battle is the handiwork of Louisiana Country Singer Johnny Horton, but the song has been played by bayou fiddlers for generations. Singer Horton toned down the original verses ("They lost their pants/ And their pretty shiny coats/ And their tails were all a-showing/ Like a bunch of billy goats"), gave the song a martial beat, and produced a runaway...