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...foot with enthusiasm. "Yassuh!" he laughed. "You is gonna c'mon downstairs to de boys' dressin' room and hear dose cats swing on down in a jam session!" He trotted to the elevator, his blue bathrobe swirling to expose a mighty calf. "Are you gonna bring up dat machine fo' yo' Mister Waller, Dad " he called down the shaft...
...musicians swung into "Sugar Rose." Fats squealed with delight. "Git ready fo' de jam now!" The boys got ready, and went into a wild jumble of hot rhythm. A clarinet player popped up somewhere and made his instrument screech an improvised sing-song. Fats, his tremendous bulk bobbing in time, shouted hoarse encouragement to his boys. With a final, incomprehensible flourish by the saxes, the jammin' stopped. "Dose cats can take yo' socks right off yo' shoes," gasped Fats...
...training. In lonely sea-watches he figured it out. God had given him his common sense and uncommon luck to enable him some day to sail out across the Black Ocean where no living man has been and bring back the truth. When he got stuck in the fo'c's'le hatch of a foundering old tub Harry knew his drowning was not in the cards. Sure enough, the boilers burst and blew him back to the surface. In an episode which comes near to being pure Mark Twain he almost got tied down...
Arturo Toscanini was working his men to a frazzle fo/ the traditional opening performance, Fidelio, on July 24. The spunky old man refused again to have Nazi stations pick up his broadcasts, relented only when Germany threatened to spoil Die Meistersinger by withdrawing two of its most distinguished stars-Baritone Hermann Nissen (Hans Sachs),Tenor Henk Noort (Walther). Herbert Graf had plotted entirely new staging for Mozart's Magic Flute, and Toscanini planned to conduct it four times. Of the 27 performances scheduled Toscanini would direct twelve, two more than Conductor Bruno Walter. To Walter was allotted Mozart...
...unemployed is as good as anyone's else. No sooner had the figure been announced than the President's friend Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina proclaimed that $1,000,000,000 would be plenty. But a $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation will provide jobs fo some 1,800,000 individuals, about 240,000 less than are on WPA payrolls at present The U. S. conference of Mayors has urged a Relief appropriation of at least $2,200,000,000. Last week liberals in the House meeting in Texas' Maury Maverick's office declared...