Word: altos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money for the trip, and also to condition himself for Japanese life. He slept in the front seat of his car, ate canned salmon heated on the exhaust manifold (food cost: 25? a day), pressed his trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office in Seattle and paid $195 for a round-trip ticket to Yokohama, tourist class...
...make up for the loss of Bill Davison's fine group, the Ken has imported George Johnson, ex-Raymond Scott. Further back, George's alto used to be one of the biggest kicks in Franckie Newton's old band. His present outfit is only four pieces, but it is soon to be augmented, possibly by Emmett Berry, exTeddy Wilson and Horace Henderson...
Last week's deadline prevented getting in the news about the jam session at the Hotel Bradford this past Sunday. (It was half good and half bad.) Assets: Coleman Hawkin's superb tenoring, the tremendous drive of Pete Brown's alto, and J. C. Higginbotham's tromboning. Debits poor acoustics which murdered the ensembles, and Red Allen's attempts to be entertaining and run the whole show. Another session will be held soon, and we promise to let you know this time...
...Davis and. Palo Alto, Calif., the experiment last week rated four stars. Two hundred clerks, university students and professors worked as gandy dancers (section hands). For eight and a half hours' work they collected $6.40. Said one of them, Veterinary Science Professor Hugh S. Cameron: "Along about Sunday afternoon you know you've been working...
...proud Princeton will stage both its Army and Navy games in New York City's huge Yankee Stadium. The Big Nine's Illinois-Ohio State game has been moved from Champaign to Cleveland; Stanford's games with Santa Clara and Washington from Palo Alto to San Francisco. Texas A. & M. will tackle Rice at Houston instead of its own College Station...