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...bored with them, there is the irrefutable fact that more Americans today appreciate and study "jazz" than 40-odd years ago when ragtime and jazz were born in New Orleans. In those days, Americans--and Europeans--listened to symphony orchestras and military bands, and they danced only to string orchestras. Only the musicians and a small element of the Negro population knew this new American folk idiom. Today, the popularity of Duke Ellington among the name bands, the crowded bistros of New York's 52nd Street and Greenwich Village, and the prodigious increase in the issue of jazz recordings attest...
Solider and more explosive matter now has priority over propaganda. But in the fall of 1939, when the war still looked phony, propaganda had priority over bombs. One R.A.F. crewman returning from a "bomphlet" mission shamefacedly reported that he had flipped his bundle overboard without cutting the string. Said his superior: "My God, you might have killed somebody...
...Furious Being. At the rehearsal Stokowski discovered the orchestration was only for piano and string quintet, sent out a call for the composer, meanwhile attempted to proceed. When Ponce arrived, Stokowski erupted in French. He semaphored and windmilled. His elderly victim commented later: "What a surprise ... a furious being, wildly gesticulating at me . . . very rude. ..." Stokowski adjourned the rehearsal until 7:30 a.m. on the day of the broadcast...
...back of a chair, on a table, on a customer's lap. His eyes are Scandinavian blue, his smile broad and boyish, his manner unfailingly virile. In London in the '20s he got the romantic lead opposite diaphanous Evelyn Laye in The Merry Widow. A string of stage and cinema hits followed; there were Carl Brisson fan clubs, chocolates, cigarets, bathing suits. Lord Beaverbrook ran Brisson's life story in ten installments in the Sunday Express. Hollywood discovered...
Between seasons of working the farm, B.A. collected a string of 54 mares, finally turned the farm over to a caretaker and devoted himself to racing. But his devotion to fine horseflesh for its own sake was complicated by the responsibilities of ownership. In 1931 B.A. sold his string, took a job as head man of Kansas City's Woolford Farm. Seven years later he reached the top when Lawrin won the Derby...