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Louis listened to all of the Negro jazz pioneers: men like Clarinetists Alphonse Picou and Sidney Bechet, Trombonist Kid Ory, Pianist Jelly Roll Morton and Cornetist Bunk Johnson. But Cornetist Joe ("King") Oliver was his favorite: "Soon as I heard him I said 'there's mah man!'" At first, Louis just listened. He ran errands, hawked bananas, ground up old brick and sold it to prostitutes for scouring their front steps on Saturday mornings. When he was eleven, he also started a street quartet in which he sang tenor, picked up loose change by serenading through...
...pull it back together with black tape." Stuffy did his share of the knocking. In fact, his nickname resulted from it. Whenever the youngster would make a hit or come up with a hard grounder, the older boys he played with would yell, "That's the stuff, kid...
...Loud-mouthed Communist-line Congressman Vito Marcantonio took the witness stand. He was offered by the defense as an "expert," but he did none of his usual screaming; he was bothered by a cold. No such ailment handicapped pint-sized Lawyer Harry Sacher, who looks like a Dead End Kid. In a bullfrog's voice he insinuated at one point that Judge Medina was prejudicing the trial. Medina said icily: "You and your colleagues have obviously adopted new techniques by which, instead of the defendants being tried, the court and all its members are the ones who must suffer...
...leave of his host, Sinclair Lewis, to visit a patient: "I have a feeling that Johnny Gunther will die this weekend." Johnny did die, of a brain tumor that more than a dozen doctors had fought unsuccessfully for 15 months. Johnny was only 17, a tall, good-looking, skinny kid who had graduated from Deerfield Academy and planned to enter Harvard that fall...
...Dizzy D. Jaunty Tommy Murphy, as much as anyone, was a typical man from old Battery D. Tommy, a sergeant in the outfit, was from Kansas City's East Side. As a kid he had gone into the fight game and become king of the amateur lightweights. He was out in Seattle in 1917, when the boys back home wrote him that they were trying to form an all-Catholic battery in the 129th Field Artillery. Tommy hurried home to join. That was the beginning of the wild outfit which earned the early nickname of the "Dizzy...