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...from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With a Horn) Baker came night after night to listen and finally, to Hackett's considerable embarrassment, to write a moony, swoony tribute to his "dignity" in Vogue...
WILLIAM ROWLAND Atlanta, Ga...
...tidy farm near Chickamauga, Ga., the Negro Masonic lodge held its meeting in the open air. After a picnic supper, with heaps of fried chicken and hot biscuits, everybody filed into a little church in a grove. The ladies put on a fine program of songs and recitations. Then Brother Haslerig, the chairman, called on his house guest, Brother James R. Crawford, to offer a few remarks "preferably regarding the status of our people back in Pittsburgh." But it was getting late, so the visitor from Pittsburgh just stood and took...
...Gene wore as a political trademark, pitched his "white supremacy" campaign for governor on a new note of sweet reasonableness: "Segregation is best for the white man and best for the colored man." This week "Hummon" had to give up his speechmaking temporarily. In an auto crash near Dublin, Ga., he suffered a cut mouth...
...Three thousand robed and hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered in a field near Stone Mountain, Ga. for the largest Klan ceremony since 1924 (see cut). They fired up oil buckets hung on a cross of iron pipe, initiated 700 new members, and cheered a prediction by Grand Dragon Samuel Green that "blood would flow in the streets" if civil rights for Negroes were enforced in the South...