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...gathering of the clan scheduled for Saturday afternoon in the Lowell House Common Room from 4 to 7 o'clock. Charley Vinal's Rhythm Kings will be there and "Mezz" Mezzrow is planing in from New York where be is currently featured with Art Hodes at Ryan's on 52nd Street. Those who attend the Bates game in the stadium are cordially invited to drop over after the last whistle and hear Harvard's first big-time live jam session since last September...
Last week His Imperial Highness, Haile Selassie, King of Kings and Lion of Judah, celebrated his 52nd birthday and faced a grave educational problem. Ethiopian illiteracy is rampant. While his country was under the Italian heel, every educated Ethiopian that could be found was systematically exterminated. For six years not an Ethiopian child was allowed to go to school...
During the Prohibition '20s Billy had a connection with an exclusive "Club" on the corner of Manhattan's 52nd Street and Park Avenue. The club involved an initiation fee of $1,500 but people with money still filtered in. Finally police filtered in through the skylight. Billy, of course, had been gone for three days...
...unusual ability to play the guitar with one hand, Sabicas soon became the favorite accompanist of flamenco singers and dancers all over Spain. Nowadays, on evenings when he is not working, easy-going Sabicas-who looks like a Spanish Tom Dewey-is usually to be found in a 52nd Street Spanish restaurant named El Flamenco, strumming his guitar for love at the merest hint...
...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 that people, far from becoming bored with the earliest and purest forms of folk music, are just beginning to cultivate an appreciative taste for them...