Word: alston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auden is settled for the summer on Fire Island-off New York's Long Island -where he owns a tar-paper-covered shack near a sand dune. On one wall of his littered study Poet Auden keeps an immense map of Alston moor in Cumberland below the Roman Wall, his childhood country, whose limestone quarries, fells and valleys-and mining machinery -have persisted as bleakly beautiful imagery in all his work...
Harry Burleigh lives in The Bronx, has been separated from his wife for some 25 years. Their son is Major Alston Waters Burleigh, U.S.A., and there is also a grandson in the Army. Harry Burleigh has had the means to help many younger Negro musicians, including Marian Anderson, who sang on one of his programs when she was publicly unknown. He views social problems with a conservative eye, believing that the Negro should advance himself through individual effort rather than political action. A musician of classical training, he is not at all interested in jazz. His hobby: detective stories...
ROOTS IN THE EARTH-P. Alston Waring and Walter Magnes Teller-Harper...
Notes between the notes: This "Vargo of a Merge" tune recorded by Mitchell Ayres is the result of a song-writing contest and in written by two residents on San Quentin Penitentiary... Heard Ovie Alston's band playing at an obscure ballroom a short time ago in New York, and they certainly, deserve better work. Most of the band being out of the old Claude Hopkins gang, they play fine stuff, especially the tenor man, first trumpet man Alston, and the second trumpet. Both the latter, by the way, have something unusual-clear easy tones and unhurried, subtle styles...
...Alston Blackwell '40, Babcock's roommate, said yesterday that the missing student had sent a telegram to an aunt in Summit, N. J., with the brief message, "Am in army until end of war." The message was sent from Fort de France, Martinique. Presumably Babcock had made his way there in order to enlist under French colors and obtain passage to France...