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...Whiteman's band, became one of the greatest of jazz musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano in a Los Angeles mission, shifts to the trumpet under the influence of some first-class Negro musicians, and makes his first success while playing with a group of college...
...Author Baker frankly confesses, her job is too much for her. The music that Rick Martin made died with him; it was improvised, unwritten, spontaneous and "one of these days even his records will be played out." To approximate that music in prose, she gives accounts of where and when it was played and how Rick Martin fell when he played it-but since what he felt was principally a moment of inspiration and self-forgetfulness, her accounts might apply as well to bad jazz as to good. Young Man with a Horn sounds right when Author Baker writes about...
...Bunnies hit Bob White for a pair of runs in each of the first two frames. Casey Hausserman Leverett hurler, buffaloed the Bellboys, except in the fifth inning when Rick Hedblom clouted a triple, driving in the losers' two runs...
Centers: James Feron '39, Rick Hedbloom '39, Tim Russell '39, Hamilton Wood '40, Amory Burnham '41, Tom Groves '41, Rod Townsend...
...Rick Hedblom still has the edge over Tim Russell for a starting place at Center, although there has been no official decision made as yet. Both have equally excellent Princeton game performances under their belt, and even though Russell's was a year ago, he is a powerful competitor for the pivot post. Chuck Klein will start in place of Captain Allen at guard