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Wings Over Jordan (Wings Over Jordan choir conducted by Worth Kramer; Columbia; 8 sides). Surging, vibrant singing of eight spirituals without benefit of printed arrangements, forming the first recordings of the Cleveland Negro choir noted for its CBS Sunday broadcasts...
...March 31 nearly 300 workers in one of the workers in one of the world's largest department stores went on strike: The store was Jordan Marsh. The workers were fighting over whether the A.F.L. or an independent, company-dominated union should represent the truck drivers and warehouse men. For more than two weeks Jordan Marsh tried to break the strike by storing their goods in Columbia Record Company warehouses, distributing them in trucks owned by the Kaplan Company of Lowell and using the polite "services" of many other wholesalers who value the department store's powerful friendship. The issue...
This strike could have affected thousands of families around Greater Boston, yet not a word about it was printed in the Boston, Press. The metropolitan papers studiously kept all news of the dispute out of their columns in deference to the fat advertising contracts which Jordan Marsh annually gives them. They shifted control of their columns from the managing editor to the boys who sell...
...those who like dramatic orchestral readings of Bach organ works, Columbia has released another Bach-Stokowski transcription, this time a brilliant performance of the D minor Toccata and Fugue. Columbia offers in addition this month an excellent collection of Negro spirituals sung by the Wings Over Jordan Choir who extemporize the different parts in an attempt to retain the spontaneous improvisation which gave birth to these songs...
...same league with 1941's memorable fantasy, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Andrew is still delightful, timely entertainment. It fails to make full use of its Continental shades, and its wobbly plot could stand tightening, but its well-played characters are honestly appealing -especially young Holden, as he tells the jury: "I hope what I am trying to say doesn't sound like flag-waving. I have always felt that flag-waving was something sacred and quiet, and not to be done for any selfish motive...