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...Crosby and will form his own band. Muggsy is a cornetist from way back, and one of the few musicians whose work has never at any time dropped below the standard of hot jazz at its finest. So whatever Muggsy does, you can count on a good job. . . Count Basic tries the experiment of a fast blues in rhumba time. It's called Volcano, and features a swell muted trumpet chorus by Harry Edison. In the ensemble, the brass section takes top honors (OKEH). . . Lionel Hampton's new sextet includes a four-man rhythm section, a fiddle, and a clarinet...
...National Maritime Union demanded war-risk compensation of $125 to $250 a month for sailors working ships outside the Western Hemisphere or in ports of the Western Hemisphere controlled by belligerents. Marine workers also demanded a 25% increase in the basic rate of pay. In Congress, Illinois's Everett McKinley Dirksen stormed that N. M. U. was Communist-controlled, declared he would introduce a bill to bring merchant crews under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Navy...
...Record of the week: As Long As I Live, by the Benny Goodman Sextet (COLUMBIA). Benny picks a fine tune in the first place, and plays it in that light bounce that's becoming more and more identified with anything Goodman does. I liked the chorus best, with Count Basic playing melody against Benny's low register trill. Very original stuff. Reverse is a fast blues, Benny's Bugle. George Auld takes the honors on this. . . . It's open to question how long will Bradley can get away with recording Beat Me Daddy under various titles. This time...
...charged by the people of this country to accomplish two things: to see to it that the British Empire and Commonwealth are not defeated and destroyed, and to keep us out of participation in the war as active belligerents." This is a concise and accurate statement of the basic formula of foreign policy summed up by the popular phrase "all-out aid short...
...course, Dean Burwell pointed out, will combine the basic knowledge and skills of both medicine and dentistry and is designed to train new types of scientific workers for the attack on the great public health problem of general disease...