Word: aerophobia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jittery "takes" the orchestra rushed to telephones: it was Wall Street's "Black Friday" in September 1929. Conductor Joy has had an arranger (Cornetist Del Staigers) who once, everyone swears, fell asleep on an arranging job, completed it satisfactorily before he woke. There was a trumpeter who had aerophobia (fear of high places); Mr. Joy had to hire the trumpeter's wife to soothe him in a 23rd-floor studio. Between these diplomatic feats, Leonard Joy picks names for pieces by inarticulate musicians (sample: Child of a Disordered Brain for an Earl Hines piano number) and looks...
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