Word: missed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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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...
...Planner Wright, like many another architect, thinks that the bombing of Europe's cities is likely to be a blessing in disguise. "After all," says he, "what is St. Paul's? An imitation of St. Peter's in Rome. I don't think anyone will miss Wren's work much. Broadacres is going to England as soon as there is a chance for it to be shown there. This will be immensely beneficial to England...
More than that, Miss Tennant invited good-natured, green-eyed Tomboy Alice to share her Los Angeles home, became her teacher, manager, mother, mouthpiece. Under her guidance, Alice Marble developed into the hardest-hitting woman player in the U. S. Just as Brother Dan had suggested, she went "round the world in style." She was presented to England's Queen Mary after winning the Wimbledon championship last year; she became a nationally famed designer of women's tennis togs, a football commentator, women's-club lecturer, a nightclub singer...
...Miss Tennant, who goes everywhere that Alice goes, to coach, counsel or console, will go too. Said she last week: "I will be surprised if Alice makes less than...
Scion of a long line of German-American brewmasters and brewery tycoons, young George Ehret has been studying singing in Florence for the past two years. Last week Italian police had him up in court along with Miss Grace Gunther, also a U. S. citizen, expatriated for 30 years in Florence. They were each accused of doing in a big way what most foreigners in Italy do in a small way: buying lire at cut rates from illegal black-bourse traders...