Word: asch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Teschemacher. Decca has marketed such choice collections as Riverboat Jazz and Harlem Jazz, 1930. Asch has continued to record the jazz chamber music played in Manhattan's nightclubs by Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum...
Among them : Capitol, Hit, Asch, Beacon, Blue Note, Comet, Commodore, De Luxe, Dix, Apollo, Savoy, Harmonia, Keynote, Exclusive, Feature, Musicraft...
...brackets of fast-selling fiction. Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, published the year before, was the No. 1 U.S. fiction best-seller for eleven months, was then nosed out by John P. Marquand's So Little Time (sales of The Robe to date: 680,000 copies). Sholem Asch's The Apostle is now No. 4 bestseller...
...Asch's Paul is the brilliantly dynamic prophet and organizer of the early Christian Church. He was driven by an ineluctable faith, by visions no less intense. No danger stopped him. But St. Paul was not only an evangelist. He was pugnacious and something of a politician. Says Novelist Asch: "The center of his world was his 'I' . . . which measured, judged and defined." Paul lacked that "soft, winning goodness, that graciousness of speech, that warmth which characterized his fellow apostle, Peter." On the contrary, he was hard and ascetic. He was also epileptic, and saw many...
...Novelist Asch, the long years that went into the writing of The Nazarene and The Apostle were a dedication. On the last page of The Apostle he wrote: "I thank Thee and praise Thee, Lord of the world, that Thou hast given me the strength to withstand all temptations and overcome all obstacles . . . and to complete the two works...