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Last week Benny seemed happier than he had been in a long time. Standout sidemen in Benny's new band: Trombonist Urbie Green and Drummer Mousie Alexander, a graduate, surprisingly, of the contrapuntal Sauter-Finegan band. The arrangements were mostly the old Fletcher Henderson "killer-dillers" that Benny made famous in the '30s, and the swinging improvisations did not seem so improvised any more. But this exhibit from the past-venerable enough to have a movie made about his life-was still able to show a new generation that there is something besides Dixieland, "progressive," and the noise...
They reminisced about their college days as they walked through the Yard. One of them, described as an "old sentimental brute," lovingly recalled happier days on the top floor of Thayer...
...going to do more than's been done around here in the last ten years," he vowed, but would not commit himself as to exactly what he is going to do. On the whole, Sullivan thinks the University and the City "get along pretty well," but he'd be happier if the College would ban students' cars. Eddie isn't too happy about expansion either. "Pretty soon there won't be any taxable property left in this city if Harvard keeps buying it up. If they want to expand, let them expand...
...those Chicago clubwomen, yawping and heaving about Johnny's unphonic treatment in the public schools, would channel their time and energy into home reading exercises for Johnny instead of battering the school people, everyone would be much happier, including Johnny...
...first automaker to accept the labor-dispute umpire system (in 1940), first to hitch wages to the cost-of-living index, first to link wage increases to productivity. Last year G.M. lost an average (nationwide) of only three minutes in labor troubles for each wage earner. Today's happier version of the sitdown in Flint occurs when local U.A.W. leaders, G.M. brass and civic bigwigs sit down at a luncheon meeting to plot the Community Chest campaign...