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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate chooses medicine, hopping on the already overcrowded band-wagon, feeling it may carry him safely through the hectic years that lie ahead. Governments may fall and financial systems disintegrate, but not in his lifetime will human anatomy change, not in his lifetime will human disease cease. Society, no matter what form it may take, will provide livelihood for those who can cure, repair, reconstruct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMOR | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

...even such black marks as Mr. Larry Clinton's persistent swipings from Tschaikowsky can cover up some of the fine playing done this year both on records and in person by a great many bands. Among the crop of new outfits, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Jack Jenny and pianist Teddy Wilson have units worth watching . . . The public's taste in jazz has kept on improving; consequently, Mr. Shaw is finding things just a bit more difficult. His tripe isn't quite as easy to pan-handle this year . . . Benny Goodman has broken the biggest unwritten law in jazz by having...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

...Woody Herman, famous leader-clarinetist of "The Band That Plays the Blues", will be at the Minute Man Record Shop on Boylston Street next Wednesday from three to four. Besides having brought his band from mere local fame to a national peak in the space of one year, Woody is a brilliant musician and really knows whereof he speaks. Drop around and get him to tell you why he thinks all good jazz should be built on the blues--it's worth hearing...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

Three other members of the band who escaped immediately after the shooting were found hiding in their homes, nursing injuries, and were likewise lined up and shot by soldiers. A few minutes after the killing of Calinescu, two of his slayers committed suicide with their guns after being trapped in a store near the scene of the assassination...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

Last year a morose Czech tunesmith named Jaromir Vejvoda wrote a bouncing little tune and called it Skoda Isky ("No more love"). Popular among polka-dancing Bohemians and Moravians, Vejvoda's bit of tinkle-tonkle was soon recorded by an old-fashioned Czech beer-garden band, and in disc form reached the U. S. Because of the record's quaint, beery boopishness, Victor (its U. S. distributor) renamed it the Beer Barrel Polka. The Beer Barrel Polka record not only caught on, it spouted continuously and deliriously from slot machines in every skating rink, juke joint and hamburger stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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