Word: placing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
Among the oldtimers, Bing Crosby dropped from third to sixth place in Down Beat's poll, and tumbled from twelfth to 17th in Metronome...
Radioactive fish are not the main problem; water free of dissolved solids is essential for other reasons too. In its search for the best place for its new plant, the AEC narrowed its choice to a site on the Red River near Paris, Texas and the site on the Savannah. The two rivers are equally muddy, but silt can be removed by a comparatively cheap filtering process. The Red River, however, carries a large amount of dissolved material which would have to be removed by a chemical process costing $40 million a year. The Savannah gets its water from...
Like his friend and fellow fake-hunter, Magician Harry Houdini, Rinn spent a long time looking for evidence of psychic power he could believe in. As a youngster, he was bowled over when a medium ordered him to place the spout of a kettle to his ear and thus receive the words of a "spirit voice." Only after he himself became a magician did Rinn realize that he had been duped (out of $5) by a double-bottomed kettle equipped like a telephone receiver and in contact with a "spirit" hidden behind a panel...
...Have Flaws." Zorn followed the Golux to Hagga's hill, a place so high that it is dug in furrows "where the dragging points of stars had plowed the fields," and where "there was a smell . . a little like Forever in the air." There they found a woman who wept jewels-and sometimes, when she wasn't really very moved, she just cried costume jewelry...