Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notes between the notes: The All-Star record that Metronome Magazine in conjunction with Columbia Record Corp. is putting out next week will be very interesting from many standpoints. Besides having the winners of Metronome's Band Poll playing in one band, it will settle the argument about Gene Krupa's drumming. When Krupa left Goodman, he was a brilliant show-off--and therefore a lousy band drummer. Since then, all the critics that have given his band any attention at all have agreed that Gene has changed into one of the most unostentatious and best band drummers around. Since...
...last week proclaimed to a be-Fogged audience the joys and benefits of labor. More, for once, in the tradition of Jefferson than is Jefferson-admiring President Conant, Mr. Williams by implication criticized his host's views on the "distraction" of earning a living, and put up a convincing argument for the work scholarship instead of the direct stipend...
...Again last week Berlin and London engaged in a claiming argument about total merchant tonnage sunk since September. Berlin claimed 409 victims, Allied and neutral, totaling 1,493,431 tons. London reported that the real figures were 274 ships, 925,044 tons. Lloyd's Shipping Gazette appeared to umpire the debate by listing as lost, from its authoritative sources, 281 Allied and neutral ships of 977,790 tons...
...that a way out can be 'found short of violent revolution; 5) that the Allied war aims, as so far stated-to crush Hitler and protect the small countries-are considerably less than clear or inspiring. But the authors of these books find plenty of room for argument...
...even the purists usually give the public the benefit of a "straight" melody first chorus. But while his ideas are startling and beautifully executed, they never withdraw from the velvety tone of the Dorsey type--a criticism from the standpoint of pure hot, but also a destruction of the argument that good hot men can't play suavely for public consumption...