Word: hardin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he dropped some lyrics on the floor during a recording session, he quickly substituted nonsense syllables, and added "scat-singing" to jazz. He had formed "Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five" (Satchmo, Clarinetist Johnny Dodds, Trombonist Kid Ory, Johnny St. Cyr on the banjo and second wife Lil Hardin Armstrong on the piano) to make recordings of his best numbers for Okeh. When he played Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened worshipfully. All of them now make their...
First Period--Hatch (H) 4:03; Harris (H) 10:51. Second Period--Snelling (H) 8:49; Hardin (A) 11:42; Timpson (H) 13:42. Third Period--No scoring...
Campbell Farming Corp. Hardin, Mont...
...Promise in the first person feminine-as a wife's-eye view of an able, unstable husband whose career fluctuates between life on the dole and the brilliant editorship of a picture magazine. But despite the author's daring viewpoint, readers are not likely to know Amy Hardin Ellery any better than other heroines of women's magazine fiction...
...playmates called him "Shot," in honor of the time he had once misspelled the word in school. Later, he worked as a call-boy on the nearby Texas & Pacific Railway, and punched cows in the summer to earn his way through Simmons College (now Hardin-Simmons University). He played basketball, and ran so many campus organizations that he picked up another nickname, "Ma." Prankish, he liked to set all the alarm clocks in the student dormitory in which he lived for 4 a.m., roll 16-lb. shots down the halls and stairs in the dead of night. The college yearbook...