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...Editor La Cossitt is no tyro in his field. Trained at the University of Missouri's journalism school, he was a reporter on the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...hand beating out the solidest bass in U.S. pianism, a right hand doing fine and jubilant things. The hands were those of the great Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, short-time student of Leopold Godowsky and lifelong admirer of James P. Johnson, the great professor of Jamaica, L.I. Even a tyro in such matters might easily guess what experts have known for years: that Fats Waller is the payoff in the classic American jazz piano style-full-chorded and hallelujah...
Bedtime Earned. Markova earns around $350 a week, wears out three pairs of ballet slippers doing it. Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro. In Manhattan she arrives every morning at 10:30 at the studio of her trainer, a Svengalian Italian ballet master named Vincenzo Celli. He ruthlessly analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time...
...Grade. To win this control cost Bob Young five years of uphill fighting, most of the grey hairs now on his head. It all started in April 1937, when Bob Young and two tyro financiers bought control of Alleghany Corp. for $4,000,000 cash and $2,375,000 notes. Within a few months the 1937 stockmarket break had forced out one of the trio, the second had taken a back seat. Bob was soon in a head-to-head fight with underwriters Morgan Stanley & Co. (over competitive bidding on C. & O. and other bond issues) and a court skirmish...
...Colonel William Franklin Knox stands for the war effort in a very particular way. A grand old soldier and dilettante sailor, patriotic American and courageous shouter, competent executive and tyro at strategy, a die-hard Republican who entered the Cabinet for a show of unity in the dark days after the fall of France, Knox is a symbol of the confusion, amateurism, divided authority, the lack of broad planning-and also of the good will -that characterized Washington last week...