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Every Sunday in New Orleans, a crowd of jazz fans thread their way into a Bourbon Street gin mill called The Paddock. The lucky ones find seats close up at the bar, where the music is loudest, and with a deference equaling that of longhair purists, listen to an eight-piece band playing oldtime, home-town jazz. The leader of the band is a smiling, coal-black trumpet player named Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, 69 (or maybe 74), who has been playing the same kind of straight, hard jazz for more than 50 years...
...With the 124th Cavalry ("unmounted, but we had boots and spurs"), Billy won three battle stars in the China-Burma-India Theater, ended up in China as a sergeant. After college (Yale '48), Steinkraus combined his two main pastimes into a temporary career. An ardent musician ("strictly longhair"), he played the viola with the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, joined a concert-management concern, spent all his spare time on the horse-show circuit...
A.F.L. Musicians Boss James Caesar Petrillo was deeply annoyed when he heard that one of his boys, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, had made some unauthorized (by Petrillo) recordings in Vienna last March. Now, getting wind that Maestro Rodzinski might cut a few more longhair platters in Europe, Little Caesar thundered: "If he wants to scab, he'd better get out of the union. And if he leaves...he won't be worth a plugged nickel. He'd walk out on the stage and [our members] would walk out on him. That's what would happen...
...spot announcement, broadcast over Manhattan's longhair station WQXR: "This is a wonderful country. In the good old U.S.A., we have the great privilege of having our own ideas. For example: one day a charming American lady came to Lincoln Warehouse Corp. . . . She rented a vault for the storage of her furniture. She wanted the walls and ceiling of the vault painted exactly the same as her apartment so that her furniture would have the same setting as in her own home. She got what she wanted. Whatever your ideas may be, you know your furniture is safe with...
...Alton, Ill. (pop. 32,176), Paul S. Cousley, local president of the Community group, said, "The few complaints we've had have come from merchants who think we're sometimes getting a little too longhair." In Chillicothe, Mo. (pop. 8,649), Owsley Welch had the same report: "If we have a criticism it's that the programs are usually a little heavy for Chillicothe." In Streator, Ill. (pop. 16,442), Linden Mulford laid it down: "All we have in Streator is middle-class people, and if you give them all longhair stuff, you'll find only...