Topical Guide 314
Mark Dorset
History: Real: Momentous Events
The years that Herb and Lorna spent at May’s were exciting ones, years of progress and innovation, rising expectations and increasing prosperity. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vannevar Bush and a team of scientists and engineers constructed an electromechanical calculator that nudged the slide rule a little further toward death. Tutankhamen’s tomb was opened. Lindbergh flew to Paris. Paul Whiteman bought Arnold Abbot Adler’s arrangement of “Lake Serenity Serenade,” added a vocal by the Rhythm Boys, and made a hit of it. Studebaker introduced the pretty little Erskine Six sport roadster and ran a pair of President Eights around the Atlantic City Speedway for nineteen days nonstop at an average speed approaching seventy miles per hour.
Herb ’n’ Lorna, Chapter 10
I couldn’t find a recording of Paul Whiteman’s version of “Lake Serenity Serenade,” with or without a vocal by the Rhythm Boys, so here is the Paul Whiteman Orchestra performing “Happy Feet,” with a vocal by the Rhythm Boys:
See also: History: Nature of, Alternative Versions of, Distortions of, Personal Version of TG 35
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