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...history of hot jazz is written it will include the name of a legendary Buddy Bolden, a Negro trumpeter from the Rampart Street section of New Orleans who as long ago as 1910 persisted in interpolating wild, melancholy notes not written in his scores. He ended in an insane asylum. The jazz history will also tell about William Christopher Handy who brought "St. Louis Blues" north from Memphis, and about the Negro bands whose frenzied improvisations took the Barbary Coast by storm, inspired Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis and countless other white-skinned imitators...
...questions. However, an interne told me that he was dismissed for writing descriptions of beaten patients on the hospital charts. There were 15 serious Jewish cases in his own ward. Jews beaten until injured for life, one nearly blind, one who had to be sent to an insane asylum, one with many stab wounds in his arm, another shot through the leg many times...
Early one evening last week a heavy rainstorm drenched New Jersey. At the Passaic Home & Orphan Asylum, six boys -Jacob Merlnizek, John Murdock, Douglas Fleming, Rudolph Borsche' Frank & Michael Mazzola, all between 11 and 15-were worried. Maybe their baseball field was washing away. They cunningly approached their matron. Didn't she want to know if the rain had damaged her garden? She did. She said they might go out if they were careful to put on raincoats and rubbers. A quick look at the garden showed that it was all right. Closer inspection of the baseball diamond...
...across Virginia and over the entire South. George Crawford became more than a "runaway nigger," for in him the South saw symbolized its right to administer criminal justice in its own way. The South remembers the fugitive slave law whereby a Negro might murder in the South and find asylum in the North. Below the Potomac there was wild talk of a sudden increase in lynching if the Lowell ruling became permanent. Only by force of arms could the South be compelled to put Negroes on its juries. The Scottsboro case in Alabama hinged on the same issue after trial...
...love and was making desperate efforts to cure himself. But he was too far gone; one night he was caught redhanded, red-mouthed. Aymar, by now thoroughly convinced that the Medieval Church was right, would have preferred to have Bertrand burned at the stake. In the up-to-date asylum the result, though slower, was the same...