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...time what excellent drumming Nick Fatool is capable of . . . "Bluin' the Blues" is another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown" has the ost sudden shift this reviewer has ever heard from Dixleland (two-four) to four-four tempo--it's worth hearing...
...spectacle of two Du Fonts stepping aside was too much for the Du Pont-owned Wilmington newspapers. For 24 hours the company changes outheadlined the war. But the startling fact of a non-Du Pont in the presidency meant no change in the family control, no shift, rift or difference in policy. Lively Henry Belin du Pont, 41, dog fancier, aviator and vice president, specialist in engineering, purchases and sales, stands ready to bring the Du Pont name back to the president's office when energetic Walter Carpenter eventually gets ready to step...
There were cool heads. Deeper than the widely reported hysteria was a grim determination to prepare for anything. One tremendous shift was apparent: the rising wind of world events had for a time at least blown away Isolationism. There were still Isolationists in the U. S. but they were themselves isolated from the feeling of the nation as a whole if not from reality...
...China's Education Ministry secretly sent students to Tientsin, Peking, other university centres, through them transmitted instructions to the nation's undergraduates. Some were to gather inland at Changsha, others were to filter through enemy lines to Sian. Thousands of students gathered at these rendezvous, made shift to study while they awaited further orders. In the spring of 1938 the orders came. Then began one of history's strangest migrations-an orderly retreat of China's civilization...
...Klim" Upstairs. No less significant than its reform in principle was the Red Army's simultaneous shift in personnel. Defense Commissar Marshal Kliment ("Klim") Voroshilov, the popular, jolly and easygoing warlord who for 15 years has cavorted about the Red Square every May Day on a glossy charger set off by a naming red saddlecloth with gold trimmings, was kicked upstairs to the job of Vice Premier and Chairman of the Defense Committee...