Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Armstrong-Paris, 1934 (vox, 6 sides). The hot-jazz cultists insist that the Armstrong of the '20s is the true Armstrong, but he was going strong when he made these records with a mediocre, hastily assembled crew. What counts is Satchelmouth's relaxed singing and trumpeting of such classics as Tiger Rag, On the Sunny Side of the Street, St. Louis Blues. Recording: good...
Sally Rand, well-nigh immortal fandangler, sponsored a scholarship at the University of Illinois, handed a $1,000 check to its temporary custodian, Harold ("Red") Grange, football's famed Galloping Ghost of the early '20s...
...dominant-branch of government. In the backlands, where the officer shares pre-eminence with the priest, it operates railways, civilizes the Indians. It has produced many of the country's political leaders, not excepting Communist Chief Luis Carlos Prestes, a commander in a civil war in the '20s. Last week it quelled a revolt of noncoms who would have restored ex-Dictator Vargas...
...Dear Little Fordson." Nowhere was Europe's changed picture of Ford (and the U.S.) more poignantly illustrated than in Russia. In the '20s, Ford was one of the Soviet Union's first-string heroes. He was considered the great revolutionist in production methods and a drive was on to "Fordize" Russian plants. Workers were exhorted to "Do it the Ford way, it is the best way." His name was better known than Stalin's at the time. Villages held festivals in honor of the Fordson tractor. Wrote Leon Trotsky: "The most popular word among our forward...
Roszika Dolly, of the once-famed Dolly Sisters, who danced from World War I right on through the '20s, survived a derailment of the Santa Fe's Super Chief near Raton, N.Mex. The car she was in overturned; Roszika, now Mrs. Irving Netcher, and 54, broke her left arm. Police fished through the wreckage and recovered her jewels-about $300,000 worth...