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Lodged in the university-operated Carolina Inn, the visitors quickly made themselves at home. They went shopping for U. S. clothes and cars, mobbed Chapel Hill's three leading undergraduate "juke joints"-Aggie's, Harry's, The Pines. Most popular class was one in Basic English (850 words), taught by Harvard's Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was lent to North Carolina especially for the occasion. Although the visitors learned rapidly, the campus had some chuckles. At the movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another...
...high hilltop in Sanbornton, not far from Laconia, is the Steele Hill Farm Inn, a newly remodeled farmhouse commanding a splendid view of mountains and lakes...
...North Conway a new and attractive building, a chalet-type ski barracks has been erected on the site of the Sunset inn main building which was destroyed by fire last June. This is part of the Eastern Slope Inn...
Last week another jam project was under way near New York City, in Toto's Green Haven Inn, founded in Mamaroneck by the late famed circus clown. Mixed aplenty, Sunday-afternoon sessions were open to any expert jazzman. Four Sundays of it had built a typical jazz following, equal parts suburban jitterbugs and reverential male grownups. In every audience there was at least one know-it-all who bothered the players with technical questions, and one high-school editor who inquired: "Do you think real jazz is on the decline?", whereupon everyone grabbed for his drink...
Saxophonist was Bud Freeman. Negro Roy Eldridge blew a clear, jabbing, powerful trumpet. And when the band got in the groove with Strut, Miss Lizzie, the thin, brilliant, swooping clarinet runs of lean, sardonic Pee Wee Russell brought Toto's Green Haven Inn to its feet...