New Recordings Spotlight From Sunset Strip to Porgy and Bess
Dance mood music led by Dick Stabile with popular tunes like Poor Butterfly and We'll Be Together Again. Notable are Ellington Jazz Party with Toot Suite, Connie Francis with Come Rain or Come Shine, Kenton’s new stereo band, Pearl Bailey’s Porgy and Bess, plus Swing Classics in Hi Fi and Sarah Vaughan singing Gershwin.
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Sunset Strip
Dick Stabile
King
Stabile
Ben Bernie
Porgy and
Bess
Pearl Bailey
Bailey
Camden
Mundell Lowe
Victor
Lena Horne
Harry Belafonte
Man Goes to Death Weeping And Praying
Edward F. Eckworth, 31, a coffee salesman, died in Sing Sing on Friday night by electric chair for the bludgeon slaying of Rosemary Spezzo, 24, a Yonkers parochial school teacher. He denied initial police confessions, claiming they were beaten from him. He faced two years and three months in Sing Sing’s death house without any visits from family members.
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Ossining
N.Y
Sing Sing
Edward F. Eckworth
Rosemary Spezzo
Yonkers
Eckworth
Miss Spezzo
Carol
Mercury Vibes: The Velvet Sessions by Gibbs and Rose
This snippet highlights David Rose and Terry Gibbs collaborating for Mercury Records with velvet mood music. It notes melodic magic and magazine style homage to melodic vibes and orchestrations.
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Mercury
David Rose
Lion
Terry Gibbs
Plastic Bags Labeled Danger Cause Of Child Deaths
Harmless looking transparent bags have become death traps as youngsters suffocate themselves. More than two dozen children have died this year and officials fear the toll could reach 100. The bags are used by dry cleaners and for pillows and crib mattresses. Legislation to perforate or mark bags is pressed. Kordite Corp has begun labeling bags with a caution to keep them away from children while some blame parents for not supervising. Several victims were infants under one year old.
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National Safety Council
Kordite Corp
Macedon
N.Y
Girl Baton Twirlers Advised to Stay Home
In Newark New Jersey seven teen baton twirlers were advised to stay home during the Memorial Day parade after their uniforms shrank to bikini size. The guidance was issued Friday amid wardrobe concerns and public event planning.
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Newark
N.J
Hawes Drives 2 000 000 Miles With No Mishaps
Kenneth B Hawes 46 of 330 Kern St has driven over two million miles without a chargeable accident in a Virginia Highway Users Assn survey with two other Virginia truck drivers. He works for Michaels Transfer in Winchester and has 22 years with the company. Also credited are Fletcher O White 59 of Richmond and Weldon D Adams 43 of Sandston with similar accident-free totals.
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Kenneth B. Hawes
Kern St
Virginia Highway Users Assn
Virginia
Mr. Hawes
Michael
Winchester
Fletcher O. White
Richmond
Weldon D. Adams
Sandston
Shepherd College Set For May June Commencement Activities
Shepherd College in Shepherdstown W Va released a day by day schedule for the eighty sixth annual commencement events on May 30 to June 1 1959. activities include alumni luncheons receptions baccalaureate service and a commencement address by Dr Reuben Gustavson.
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Shepherdstown
W. Va
Shepherd College
O. S. Ikenberry
War Memorial Building
Ikenberry
Duke
High Streets
S. Earl Mitchell
First Church of the Brethren
Roanoke
Virginia
Reynolds Hall
Theta Sigma Chi Fraternity
W. H. Reece
Reuben G. Gustavson
Resources For the Future
Washington, D. C
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Bud Evans
Duke Ellington
Columbia
Ellington
Dizzy Gillespie
Johnny Hodges
Jimmy Jones
Jimmy Rushing
Connie Francis
MGM
Miss Francis
Ray Ellis
Kenton Stan Kenton
Orchestra
Capitol
Kenton
George Williams
United Artists
Sarah Vaughn
George Gershwin
Paul F. Blakely
THE
Associated Press
New Frigidaire
Marge
DOWN
Your Northern Virginia Power Company
Berryville
Strasburg
Front Royal
Kenneth Hawes
Hawes
Edward F. Kennelly
West Side High School
Afl
Kennelly
Sym Thetic
Pasadena
F. W. Pamperin
V. P. Commonwealth Life Insurance Company
Lyric Bldg
Seiberling
Tyrex
Seiberling Ist Line
Seiberling Ist
John Cammer
Portage Tire
Cammer Tire CO
S. Braddock St
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