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About records: Mildred Bailey releases six sides of blues, backed by her Oxford Greys (an all star colored band) next week that should make record history . . . Charlie Barnet's "Echoes of Harlem" while not up to the Duke version of same, is quite good . . . The Woody Herman of "Woodchopper's Ball" is a very good side of blues with trombone by Neil Reed. No adjectives needed. . . For some remarkable changes, even for Ellington, get "Something To Live For" (Brunswick) and listen to the introduction. . . Hampton's "Wizzin' the Wizz" is supposed to be even better two fingered piano. I still...
...coming weeks look very strong from the swing angle with Chick Webb now in residence at the Southland, Earl Hines due in there soon, Charley Barnet at the Raymor, various name bands in and out of Totem Pole and the Roseland State, and the Freshman Smoker's terrific array of talent Monday night...
...gone to work as a stool pigeon for District Attorney Charles S. Whitman. He soon was engaged in German spy investigations under the name of William Johnson. As a side line he tried to get a man named Cohen a death sentence for murdering a chicken handler, Barnet Baff. But when an indictment against him for subornation of perjury in connection with the Cohen case was handed down, William Johnson disappeared. That...
...dives for the nearest shelter, leaving one's car in the street with the ignition key in place, so that it may be used by officials if necessary. ... I would far rather be in Central London during a big air raid than in a traffic jam on the Barnet Bye-Pass or the Great West Road...
Howard J. Barnet, Jr., -- Miss Barbara Pierce, Milton...