That program was supplemented by Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, a program featuring rising young performers. In 1948 Arthur Godfrey Time began to be simultaneously broadcast on radio and television. The radio version ran three hours; the TV version an hour, expanded to an hour and a half. Godfrey's skills as a commercial pitchman brought him a number of loyal sponsors including Lipton Tea, Frigidaire, Pillsbury cake ...

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Arthur Godfrey, Arthur Godfrey - Early life, Arthur Godfrey - Radio announcer, Arthur Godfrey - Television, Arthur Godfrey - Later in life, Arthur Godfrey - Awards

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CBS, CBS - History, CBS - Early years, CBS - The Television Years: Expansion and growth, CBS - New owners, CBS - Some criticisms, CBS - The Eye Device, CBS - Notes on sources

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August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. August 31 - Events. 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora dies suddenly without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty 1864 - American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia. 1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his bro ...

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The Aloha shirt, known to non-natives as the Hawaiian shirt, is a style of dress shirt originating in Hawai‘i, a state of the United States. It is currently the premier textile export of the Hawai‘i manufacturing industry. Often short-sleeved, Aloha shirts exported to the mainland United States and elsewhere are often brilliantly colored with floral patterns or generic Polynesian motifs and are worn as casual, informal wear. Aloha shirts manufactured for local Hawai‘i residents are often dull in tone, if not unifor ...

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Barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. Each of the four parts has its own role: the lead sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the melody, the bass singing the lowest harmonizing notes, and the baritone completing the chord. The melody is not sung by the tenor or bass, except for an infrequent note or two to avoid awkward voice leading, in tags or codas, or when some appropriate embellishing effect can be created. Occasional bri ...

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Barbershop music - Historical origins Barbershop music - Female Barbershop music and Beautyshop quartets Barbershop music - Organizations Barbershop music - Notable artists
Barbershop music - Quartets Barbershop music - Choruses
Barbershop music - Typical Barbershop Songs

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See also: 1946 in music, other events of 1947, 1948 in music and the list of 'years in music'. 1947 in music - Events. Patti Page signs with Mercury Frankie Laine earns his first, of 21, gold records Kay Starr signs with Capitol George Jones begins performing Jimmy Rogers begins recording the Weavers begin performing Enrico De Angelis leaves Quartetto Cetra. Lucia Mannucci replaces him. Ernesto Bonino embarks on his Latin American tourIncluding:

1947 in music - Events 1947 in music - Albums released 1947 in music - Top hit records 1947 in music - Published popular music 1947 in music - Classical music 1947 in music - Opera 1947 in music - Musical theater 1947 in music - Musical films 1947 in music - Births 1947 in music - Deaths

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CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. One of the pioneer radio networks, from its earliest days CBS established a reputation for quality; prior to the fracturing of the market under cable television, CBS's television network was one of three which dominated broadcasting in the United States. The network was previously owned by the media conglomerate Viacom (itself once a subsidiary of CBS). It and other traditional broadcasting assets became the new CBS Corporation followi ...

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The ʻukulele (pronounced /ukuleɪleɪ/, or the Anglicised /jukəleɪli/), or uke, is a fretted string instrument which is, in its construction, essentially a smaller, four-stringed version of the guitar. In the early 20th century, the instrument's name was often rendered as "ukelele", a spelling still used in Great Britain. The Hawai'ian spelling 'ukulele is also sometimes seen. Including:

Ukulele - History Ukulele - Ukulele musicians Ukulele - Tahitian ukulele
Ukulele - Tuning a Tahitian ukulele
Ukulele - Audio samples

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The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the coast guard of the United States. One of the seven uniformed services of the United States, and the smallest armed service of the United States, it has a broad and important role in homeland security, law enforcement, search and rescue, marine environmental pollution response and the maintenance of river, intracoastal and offshore aids to navigation (ATON). It also lays claim to being the United States' oldest continuous seagoing service. The Coast ...

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United States Coast Guard - Officer Corps United States Coast Guard - Enlisted
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United States Coast Guard - Cutters United States Coast Guard - Aircraft United States Coast Guard - Boats United States Coast Guard - Small Arms
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United States Coast Guard - Core Values of the Coast Guard United States Coast Guard - Coast Guard Ensign United States Coast Guard - Coast Guard Standard United States Coast Guard - The Racing Stripe United States Coast Guard - Semper Paratus
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United States Coast Guard - Maritime safety United States Coast Guard - Maritime mobility United States Coast Guard - Homeland and maritime security United States Coast Guard - National Defense United States Coast Guard - Protection of natural resources
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United States Coast Guard - Early history United States Coast Guard - History Of Training Center Cape May New Jersey United States Coast Guard - Birth of the modern Coast Guard United States Coast Guard - Prohibition United States Coast Guard - World War II United States Coast Guard - Korean War United States Coast Guard - The 1960s United States Coast Guard - The 1970s United States Coast Guard - The 1980s United States Coast Guard - The 1990s United States Coast Guard - The 2000s United States Coast Guard - Future
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As a result of scholarship by Lynn Abbott and Dr. Jim Henry it is now generally accepted that barbershop singing originated in African-American communities in the U.S. around the turn of the century, where barbershops were, and remain today, social gathering places. The four-part harmony of the form has its roots in the black church, where close harmony has a long tradition. The first uses of the term were associated with African-Americans. Henry notes that "The Mills Brothers learned to harmonize in their father's barber shop in Piqu ...

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Barbershop music, Barbershop music - Historical origins, Barbershop music - Female Barbershop music and Beautyshop quartets, Barbershop music - Organizations, Barbershop music - Notable artists, Barbershop music - Quartets, Barbershop music - Choruses, Barbershop music - Typical Barbershop Songs

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Along with the talent he booked each week, he also had recurring characters appear many times a season, such as his puppet sidekick Topo Gigio, and ventriloquist Señor Wences. While most of the episodes aired live from New York City, the show also aired live on occasion from other nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan. For many years, Ed Sullivan was a national event each Sunday evening, and was the first expo ...

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The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ed Sullivan Show - Background, The Ed Sullivan Show - Famous performances, The Ed Sullivan Show - List of celebrity guests, The Ed Sullivan Show - Reference

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In 2003, an e-mail purporting to be a 60 Minutes Transcript began circulating on the Internet. The e-mail assigns numerous political opinions to Rooney. He has said that the remarks were not his and that he did not agree with many of them. In an interview segment on the satirical program, The Ali G Show, Rooney erronously criticized the artist for his use of the word racialist. A relatively unused term in the United States, Rooney, among other criticisms of the artist's speech, refused to accept Ali G's use of the term and ...

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Andy Rooney, Andy Rooney - Trivia, Andy Rooney - Books

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CBS - Early years. CBS can trace its origins to the creation, in 1927 of the "United Independent Broadcasters" network. Begun by New York talent agent Arthur Judson, it went on the air in October of that year with 47 affiliates. The first year was a struggle, and United soon looked for additional investors; the Columbia Phonographic Manufacturing Company (also owners of Columbia Records), rescued the company in 1928, and as a result, the network was renamed "Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System." Later in 19 ...

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CBS, CBS - History, CBS - Early years, CBS - The television years: expansion and growth, CBS - New owners, CBS - Some criticisms, CBS - The Eye Device, CBS - Notes on sources

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Monday-Friday: 12 AM-5 AM: Dean Lane (except Mondays); 5 AM-10 AM: Mike Moss & Richard Day; 10 AM-2 PM: Bruce Alan; 2 PM-7 PM: Shawn Anderson & Dianne Kepley; 7 PM-12 AM: Dmitri Sotis, Adrianne Mitchell, Frank Herzog, Nathan Hager, and Stephanie Gaines-Bryant Saturday: 12 AM-5 AM: Dean Lane; 5 AM-11 AM: Ira Mellman and Evan Haining; 11 AM-5 PM: Rosemary Frisino-Toohey and Dmitri Sotis; 5 PM-11 PM: Nathan Hager and Veronica Robinson; 11 PM-5 AM (Sunday morning): Barton Eckert Sunday: 5 AM-11 AM: Dave Brown and Ev ...

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WTOP, WTOP - History, WTOP - Programming and on-air personalities, WTOP - Other personalities, WTOP - Feature segments, WTOP - Awards

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The Coast Guard carries out five basic missions: maritime safety maritime mobility maritime security national defense protection of natural resources. A given unit within the Coast Guard may carry out more than one mission at once. For example, a 25-foot RHIB assigned to security around a key city also watches out for out-of-place or missing aids to navigation, pollution, and unsafe boating practices. Unite ...

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United States Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard - Organization, United States Coast Guard - Senior officers, United States Coast Guard - Regional responsibilities, United States Coast Guard - Coast Guard Air Stations, United States Coast Guard - Personnel, United States Coast Guard - Officer Corps, United States Coast Guard - Enlisted, United States Coast Guard - Equipment, United States Coast Guard - Cutters, United States Coast Guard - Aircraft, United States Coast Guard - Boats, United States Coast Guard - Small Arms, United States Coast Guard - Symbols of the Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard - Core Values of the Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard - Coast Guard Ensign, United States Coast Guard - Coast Guard Standard, United States Coast Guard - The Racing Stripe, United States Coast Guard - Semper Paratus, United States Coast Guard - Missions, United States Coast Guard - Maritime safety, United States Coast Guard - Maritime mobility, United States Coast Guard - Homeland and maritime security, United States Coast Guard - National Defense, United States Coast Guard - Protection of natural resources, United States Coast Guard - Uniforms, United States Coast Guard - History of the Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard - Early history, United States Coast Guard - History Of Training Center Cape May New Jersey, United States Coast Guard - Birth of the modern Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard - Prohibition, United States Coast Guard - World War II, United States Coast Guard - Korean War, United States Coast Guard - The 1960s, United States Coast Guard - The 1970s, United States Coast Guard - The 1980s, United States Coast Guard - The 1990s, United States Coast Guard - The 2000s, United States Coast Guard - Future, United States Coast Guard - Issues Facing the Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard - People who have been in the Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard - The Coast Guard Auxiliary and Coast Guard Reserve, United States Coast Guard - Medals and Honors of the Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard - Alumni organization

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The modern Aloha shirt was first manufactured commercially in the early 1930s by Chinese merchant Ellery Chun of King-Smith Clothiers and Dry Goods, a store in Waikiki. Chun began sewing brightly colored shirts for tourists out of old kimono fabrics he had leftover in stock. The Honolulu Advertiser newspaper was quick to coin the term Aloha shirt to describe Chun's fashionable creation. Chun trademarked the name. The first advertisement in the Honolulu Advertiser for Chun's Aloha shirt was published on June 28, 1935. Local residents, especia ...

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Aloha shirt, Aloha shirt - Missionary origins, Aloha shirt - Modern Aloha shirt

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It is commonly associated with music from Hawaii where the name roughly translates as "jumping flea" and was developed there in the 1880s as a combination of the Madeiran Portuguese braguinha and rajão. A braguinha is a cavaquinho-like instrument built in the city of Braga and named after it; the Brazilian cavaquinho is usually tuned in D-G-B-D, a G-major chord. The Madeiran rajão is tuned D-G-C-E-A, in other words. the D and G strings are both re-entrant, i.e., tuned an octave higher than expected in the normal low-to high course of strings. The GCEA strings of the rajão are the source of the re-en ...

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Ukulele, Ukulele - History, Ukulele - Ukulele musicians, Ukulele - Tahitian ukulele, Ukulele - Tuning a Tahitian ukulele, Ukulele - Audio samples

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Despite his success at ABC, Aubrey saw a limited future at the network and asked to return to CBS, doing so on April 28, 1958, initially as assistant to Frank Stanton, president of CBS, Inc., the holding company which owned the network. (Thomas W. Moore would take his ABC job.) Aubrey was made vice president for creative services in April 1959, replacing Louis G. Cowan, whom CBS promoted to network president. Aubrey was named executive vice president on June 1, 1959, a newly created post that was the number-two official at the network ...

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James T. Aubrey Jr., James T. Aubrey Jr. - Early years, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Enters broadcasting in radio, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Goes to ABC, James T. Aubrey Jr. - At CBS, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Named president of CBS, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Aubrey's formula, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Influence on the competition, James T. Aubrey Jr. - The Smiling Cobra, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Abrasive toward many, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Favoritism alleged, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Aubrey news and sports, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Aubrey's dismissal from CBS, James T. Aubrey Jr. - The interregnum, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Picked to run MGM, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Restructures the company, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Changing tastes, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Return to profitability, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Hands-on, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Final years, James T. Aubrey Jr. - Bibliography

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Teterboro Airport is the oldest operating airport in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area. Walter C. Teter acquired the property in 1917. North American Aviation operated a manufacturing plant on the site during World War I. After the war, the airport served as a base of operations for Anthony Fokker, the Dutch aircraft designer. The first flight from the present airport site was made in 1919. During World War II, the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force operated the airport. The Port Authority of NY & NJ purchased it on April 1, 1949 f ...

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Teterboro Airport, Teterboro Airport - History, Teterboro Airport - Facilities

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The center has its roots in the hukilau and lu'au gatherings on the beach in the 1940s and 1950s to earn money to rebuild a local chapel belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), which had been destroyed in a fire. The "Hukilau Song," made famous by Arthur Godfrey, was written following composer Jack Owens' visit to Laie's hukilau. The PCC and BYU-Hawaii are owned and operated by the LDS Church, as is the Laie Hawaii Temple, located northwest of the university. The PCC is considered one of the most widely visited to ...

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Polynesian Cultural Center, Polynesian Cultural Center - History, Polynesian Cultural Center - Activities

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