Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ISLANDIA-Austin Tappan Wright-Farrar & Rinehart...
...busy professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, the head of a family, gregarious, a voracious reader of books on travel and poetry. To those who knew him best, the late Austin Tappan Wright seemed the last man in the world to have much time to spare...
...equator. It was the southernmost tip of the Karain Continent. There is even a map of it (see cut). Its seasons were Windorn (winter), Grane (spring), Sorn (summer) and Leaves (fall). It had a climate, a terrain, a history and a literature all its own, all of which Austin Wright invented. Its inhabitants wore what the English of that period would have called "rational dress" (knickers of navy blue broadcloth were correct for men), and their furnishings and architecture rather suggest the tastes of Frank Lloyd Wright (no kin to the author...
Weeks, Wallace Austin...
Phonograph companies have practically stopped issuing hot jazz records. If jazz could be given the needle, Guitarist Condon was the man to do it. An oldtime member of Chicago's Austin High gang, he organized bands for the first great jazz records of the Chicago school in 1927. Ever since he has been a catalyst of jazz, who never takes a chorus himself...