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...year-old boy who shuffled into Los Angeles' Orthopaedic Hospital one morning last week, clutching his mother's hand, had a bad case of jitters. The unfamiliar setting made Jimmy shake all over. So did his mother's gentle "Come along" when the nurse summoned them. So did his attempts to talk. He was a victim of the athetoid type of cerebral palsy, marked by almost continual jerky movements that are worsened whenever the victim tries to execute the simplest task. (In the spastic type, equally common, any effort results in slow, jerky movements...
...There are few youngsters among Dixielanders any more. Star of the Metropole is a portly, weather-beaten trumpeter named Henry ("Red") Allen, 47, a man of long experience in the New Orleans school and an uninhibited buffoon. To get things warmed up, he raps out either Shake a Hand (everybody shakes a hand) or an insistent Kiss Your Baby (if there is no one to kiss unescorted women, a waiter may do the honors). Other numbers include such oldtime favorites as I Thought I Heard Benny Bolden Say, Trees, Memphis Blues, Basin Street...
...mightier than the dolce. Dixieland's adolescent nights, with their soulful solos, apparently are lost in the dim past, now to be replaced mostly by steamed-up, middle-aged antics. When the two bands get together for a jam session, the four chandeliers have been known to shake and rattle while the music rolled. The bar tenders are so used to making themselves heard above the din that they shout even when talking to their wives at home, and they have developed an aptitude for lip reading to understand drink orders. As for the Metropole's manager...
Tennis enthusiasts filled the lawn courts, and the golfers roamed from sand traps to the 19th hole. Many, of course, were content to wander about, shake hands, indulge, and just look. Every convenience was available to insure all such activities. The police, for example, cheerfully filled in at the softball game when players took brief dashes to the lobster tables...
...made things very difficult for the comrades. Now that Tito is a not-to-be-abused friend, how is Titoism to be combatted? Once deviationism is blessed, where does it all end? An old-line hatchet man, no brighter than he should be, could only cry: "Don't shake our trees...