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...idol of those whose esoteric writings dismiss him as "commercial" today. If he dies, so much the better, for he will be immortal, like Bix, and legends will tell of how be drank himself to death and of how he just played because he loved jazz and the hell with the money anyway. Finally, any statements to the effect that Benny might not have been the greatest, most moving, relaxed, sincere, inviolated clarinetist in the world, will automatically become anathema...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 11/2/1940 | See Source »

...hassock and ate a cookie like a good boy. His great-grandmother said sadly: "His name is Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Third, but everybody calls him Joe." Joe acted like a little gentleman until his nurse came to take him away. Then he kicked like hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: You and I Know -- | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...first time in history voted financial assistance to the mother Church of England. Sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Rev. Noel Baring Hudson asked aid for Britain's war-crippled missions, called World War II "a hell-sent opportunity for more effective Christian work in all nations." A well-chosen emissary was slight, vigorous Bishop Hudson, secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, which nurtured Anglicanism in this country all through the colonial period. In part payment for that spiritual debt, General Convention promptly upped an appropriation for help to British missions from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopal Archbishop? | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Hell, no. They don't make not trouble and they don't drink much," was the grunted comment from the nightclub manager. "And put in a statement that we're expecting a capacity crowd Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth's in Town, But Hang Around Girls; They're a Changed, Subdued Tribe of Indians | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

...Boston nightclub owner sneered in answer to a question about the extent of Dartmouth drinking. "Hell, no, They don't make no trouble and they don't drink much," was his comment. "And put in a statement that we're expecting a capacity crowd Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth's in Town, But Hang Around Girls; They're a Changed, Subdued Tribe of Indians | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

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