Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soprano Margaret Truman estimated that her 1950 earnings from concerts, radio and records might come to $75,000, but expenses would "cut my gross income in half." Also, she told the Saturday Evening Post, "there is a little man with a big book down at the Internal Revenue office-but who am I to gripe about taxes...
...Down. With her talent for a nonstop fireworks display and her brash, kid-sisterly appeal, she also won something more important: the role of De Sylva's protégée. He soon became Paramount's executive producer, a post he held for four years. One of his first decisions was to take Betty out of Panama Hattie and on to Hollywood...
...great Sir William Osier, who died 30 years ago. He was one of the first men to recognize leukemia and Hodgkin's disease as tumors rather than infections. He published the first successful diagnosis on a living patient of the disease now called coronary thrombosis, and made microscopic post-mortem sections of coronary arteries a full 25 years before the process was generally understood...
...given up his loud brass and fast beat after the war because "guys are sick and tired of jump stuff," was back on board. Last week he and his Bobcats were together again to record Dixieland versions of Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever and Washington Post, which would have sounded almost natural coming over the tail gate of an oldtime New Orleans jazz wagon. "People are tired of love songs and weepy ballads," said Bob. "They want happy music...
...libraries ferreting out and copying old music manuscripts, digging up little-known facts about music and musicians. Gradually building up his store of musical knowledge, he gained a reputation first as an independent scholar, then as one of Europe's ranking music critics. Writing in the Munich Post and the Berlin Tageblatt, he was on hand to give encouragement and advice to his friends, including contemporary Composer Paul Hindemith, during what he refers to as one of the great periods in Germany's musical history...