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Timber! Canada's forests going . . . going . . .
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Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things:
That each year Canada's forests are reduced by nearly 2.5
million acres: Every year, the newsprint for the New York Times alone
devours 4 million softwood trees, out of some 250 million Canadian
trees cut in that period.
That Shakespeare never tasted a sip of tea, coffee or chocolate
in his lifetime - and never used a fork.
- That while the furry, cuddly koala bears of Australia have no
natural enemies, and are now a protected species, one hunt in
Queensland in 1927 killed 587,000 of these creatures.
- That Morton Downey, the ...
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Spotlight
; "Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains." - Paul Whiteman
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Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music.(Popular Composers)(Book Review)
; Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music. Volume...discography, bibliography, indexes. Paul Whiteman (1890-1967) was the most popular dance...extensively in the United States and abroad. Paul Whiteman, Inc., sponsored satellite bands that...
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NAME THE FACE; Answer
; This horseman has just won the Grand National Steeplechase at Riccarton in the 1960s. What is his name? Answer in OFFTRACK, P16. . Answer - Paul Whiteman
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SYMPHONY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO PAUL WHITEMAN
; ...Symphony conductor Bruce Hangen has spent many hours researching Paul Whiteman's contributions to music in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s...saxophonist Frank Bonanno will appear. Paul Rayno, author of "Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music," will give a preconcert talk...
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Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz
; Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz, by Joshua Berrett. Yale University Press...picture of two towering figures in the development of jazz: one, Paul Whiteman, is now largely overlooked in favor of Louis Armstrong, typically...
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THE 100 DEFINITIVE CLASSICAL CDs.(Sound recording review)
; Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin (piano)/ Paul Whiteman band Columbia: New York, 10 June 1924 IN HIS early twenties...bestseller, directed from the piano, and Earl Wild's, who toured with Paul Whiteman after soloing for Toscanini. NL
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Newell Willcox, Jazz musician
; ...died Wednesday. He was 96. In 1922, his band out of Ithaca was discovered by jazz musician Paul Whiteman, who renamed the band the Paul Whiteman Collegians and brought the group to New York City. Willcox remained with the Whiteman group...
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LETTER:Snakes with a suitable diet
; From Mr Paul Whiteman Sir: Chris Moncrieff (Letters, 31 May) could do a lot worse than choose a snake as...Moncrieff, who was attacked by a gerbil, is that they eat rodents. Yours faithfully, PAUL WHITEMAN Hinckley, Leicestershire 31 May
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Red Norvo Dies at 91; Noted Jazz Xylophonist
; ...through the wider path of 20th-century jazz, starting with Paul Whiteman in the '20s and including the Woody Herman herds, Benny Goodman...Ash mispronounced it to a reporter and it stuck. He joined Paul Whiteman's swing-jazz orchestra in 1932, and in 1935, he formed a...
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Flashback
; ...at 5 p.m. but in nine other states children could be working after 7 p.m. TOP SONGS: "Together," Paul Whiteman; "Ol' Man River," Paul Whiteman; "My Ohio Home," Nick Lucas 60 Years Ago 1948 An article in the IM said that the market for live...
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