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...then came to mean playing every instrument in the band. He toured the California mining camps with one Professor Jerome who gave the miners dancing lessons. He played once in a brothel. He played in the first Paul Whiteman orchestra when jazz, unknown in the East, was starting its swift, insidious advance on the Barbary Coast. A good musician, a born improviser, he was soon mak-ing all the Whiteman arrangements. Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin to write him some music for a serious concert. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was a piano solo. Grofe scored...
Broadwayfarers know the songwriting team of Paul James and Kay Swift, whose lilting hits were in the first Little Show and Fine and Dandy. And they know this is no ordinary Tin Pan Alley combine. Paul James is James Paul Warburg, 35. brilliant banker-son of the late great Banker Paul Moritz Warburg. Kay Swift : is his wife...
...page from Swift, a page from Samuel Butler, a page or two from Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells and Anatole France: put them all together and they spell HUXLEY. Author Huxley points out that his brave new world is strikingly similar to a world simultaneously envisioned by a slightly soberer scientist, Bertrand Russell. Delighted when critics discovered that he was a Thinker, he is still unwilling to give up tomfoolery. In Brave New World he mixes it so well with sober, cynical conclusions that it is hard to tell where one stops and the other begins...
...swift backhander from Luton, the high scorer of the contest, made from a gallop, drove the ball between the bars for the first score of the game. Then after giving an exhibition of fine saving, the Harvard number one man registered again. Captain Freeman then started the Tigers off with a tally from a six man melee directly in front of the Crimson goal. Captain F. S. Nicholas '33 sent another goal through for Harvard. Crispin Cooke '32 sent a steaming shot from midfield to score in the next stanza which the Princeton back soon countered by retaliating with...
...most detailed description of the bells which our story brought forth comes from Mr. Frederic W. Swift, of Leverett House, so if it's wrong, write him. He says there are fifteen bells, four of which are attached to a stick which is held in the right hand and jiggled; nine others are attached by a complicated system of wires and pulleys to nine chains which are worked separately by the left hand; the fourteenth is worked by the right foot, and it takes two men to operate the fifteenth, and largest. "The usual procedure," relates Mr. Swift...