Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy MacPartland was back home last week. He was the only survivor in those parts" of the "Austin High gang," some of whom had gone to school together on Chicago's West Side. Saxophonist Bud Freeman, Drummer Dave Tough and Guitarist Eddie Condon were playing in Manhattan...
...Gang. Twenty-five years ago, Jimmy was a thin, good-looking kid who had been playing the cornet ever since he could remember. He and the gang at Austin High spent their time practicing in vacant houses, playing for P.T.A.-sponsored dances and listening to an old jukebox in the Straw and Spoon, a Coke joint across the street from Austin High. When they weren't practicing themselves, they were listening to the big-timers-to King Oliver, the great New Orleans Negro trumpeter, or Beiderbecke and the Wolverines. Other Chicago kids began sitting in with the Austin High...
CARL LANTOS Austin...
After a hopeful first period getaway which saw goals by Jay Hurley and Charley Gregg, the latter on an assist by John Rogers, keep the score a respectable 3 to 2, the Crimson attack wilted before the determined not tending of Dartmouth's Austin Knight. In the last three periods the Green's well coordinated attack, paced by all-American Bob Merriam, who scored four goals and four assists, moved out for eight additional goals and an insurmountable lead...
...mission, led by Dr. Austin M. Brues of the University of Chicago and Dr. Paul S. Henshaw of the Manhattan District, examined some of the victims and collected information from Japanese physicians on The Bomb's delayed after-effects.* Chief findings...