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...thing unusual about the band is the way they picked up a rhythm style right away that very few white bands can ever do, and that Gene Krupa's gang has taken over two years to learn: namely, a nice easy bounce on the Jimmy Lunceford style. Good swing (and for that matter, good dance music) should never be strained and pushed in the "killer" style. Relaxed rhythm is imperative to any kind of good jazz--and Donahue has it. Junie Mays (piano--also some excellent arrangements), Bill Hoffman (bass) and Charlie Carroll on drums do a sweet job besides...
...sprawling, smelly Rumanian port of Constantsa last month, a tough gang of greasy longshoremen looked expectantly out to sea. Over five months had elapsed since Joseph Stalin agreed to send Russian oil to help Adolf Hitler win his war, and just about to come snailing into Constantsa at last was the first load of Soviet crude for the Nazis...
...caught his boss getting names out of the phone book (at the instance of Associated), to sign to indignant telegrams to Washington demanding that the holding-company bill be defeated. To Trustee Driscoll will go the job of bringing asset-recovery suits, if necessary, against the Hopson gang...
...soapmakers' bill was a cool $40,000,000 last year. It cost C-P-P alone a good $8,000,000 to remind its Palmolive Soap buyers to "Keep That Schoolgirl Complexion," buy its 432 additional toilet items. Of that sum over two-thirds went into radio: Gang Busters, Myrt & Marge, Dale Carnegie...
...hand-picked selection of the Great-his criticisms of them are acute, his praise of them generally mystagogic; he admires Love-but writes no loving poem; socially, he is a run-of-the-parlor pink-but he is a nearly bloody hater of the upper-class English "old gang." By birth Auden belongs with them; and he sees a worm at their root that he would like to get his hands...