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Adding extra spin to the dancing is pert Vera-Ellen, the cutest musicomedy trick of the season. Surviving from the original score, and still giving satisfaction, are My Heart Stood Still, Thou Swell, On a Desert Island, I Feel At Home With You. Show-stopping new song, thanks to Lorenz Hart's funny lyrics and Vivienne Segal's brilliant delivery, is To Keep My Love Alive, a saga of a lady who industriously murdered her mates seriatim...
However, for jazz with the stops out, this crowd gets my vote every time, except maybe when you spin a 1923 King Oliver or a 1925 Armstrong plater on your turntable. Which is as good a way as any to alienate your landlord, unless he, too, longs for the days when the New Orleans-in-Chicago Soicety of Upper State Street held regular meetings with the Cook County Choral Conclave and Jubilee Singers, better known as the Chicago Rhythm Kings...
...over occupied Europe, Sergeant Gunner Wissenback's Flying, Fortress went into a flat spin. Pilot and copilot had been killed. Wissenback just managed to bail out at 1,000 feet, with only the chest-straps of his parachute hooked...
...back from Kirkland Avenue and shielded by shrubbery, from prying eyes, Peabody House today is tottering between salvation and decay. The building is now used daily by the Graduate School of Education and the ASTP, but spiders still spin undisturbed in the attic...
...Strenuous Life. In Wilbur, Wash., the spinning rod of a reaper caught Rancher Walter Wynhoff by the overalls, gave him a spin, tossed him aside wearing only his shoes and eyeglasses. In an Army maneuver area in Tennessee, a bolt of lightning struck the zipper of a sleeping bag, welded it all the way around, sealed up a soldier inside, uninjured...