Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleague who made the remark to Graham Patterson referred to in an item in the Feb. 27 issue of TIME entitled "God Pity the Farmers" I feel constrained to correct the impression contained in that comment. ... I cannot ignore the implied reflection on the character of Mr. Patterson. Your editors, without permission, have seen fit to broadcast to hundreds of thousands of people, entirely out of its setting, a purely joking remark made among close friends. Your editors in their typical flippant manner have elevated a bit of careless joshing into an appraisal of character, which has no basis...
...TIME took Mr. Maynard's purely joking remark as it was meant, intended no slight to Mr. Patterson...
Count's band, when it's on, is "the best swing band in the country." The quote marks enclose a remark of Mr. Goodman's. It has the greatest rhythm section ever put together. Proof offered is any one of Count's solos wherein you get his weird boogie piano backed by rhythm which is quiet, but which seems to say "Out of our way, we've swing to play." Get the Count to play you some slow blues with Jimmy Rushing singing a chorus, Lester Young playing clarinet, and piano by Mr. Basic himself; then go home...
...regard to your news story of Saturday, March 11, "Trotskyites Disrupt Communist Meeting," I should like to offer a few corrections in the interest of more exact if less sensational journalism. Your story tells how "Continual remarks such as 'It's a lie' punctuated the remarks of the speaker." Now being responsible for that discourteous remark I should like to explain how and why it was made...
About Galento, Joe Louis' only recorded remark is: "What fo' dat funny li'l fat man want to go 'round callin...