Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prophetically, Barney Darnton's last dispatch was a measured appraisal of his hazardous job and the mood of the fighting men with whom he served. He wrote in part...
...Barney Darnton did not cover World War I because he fought it in France with the A.E.F.'s Red Arrow Division-at the battles of the Oise-Aisne, the Meuse-Argonne, and the attack on the Kriemhilde-Stellung Line. A native of Adrian, Mich., Barney Darnton started his press career on the Sandusky (Mich.) Herald a few years after the Armistice, progressed through the Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Bulletin and Ledger, and the New York Post, to city editor of the A.P.'s New York Bureau. He was already a corking good newspaperman when he went to work...
There's no doubt that jazz is out, as far as Victor and Columbia are concerned. In the past four months Victor has issued one Blackbird record of Barney. Bigard, which is three weeks overdue in the stores. Columbia did a little better with an occasional Basic or Goodman sextet, and much better with a Teddy Wilson album. Only Decca has approximate peace-time output, with two Gams of Jazz albums and about a dozen Bob Crosby records...
...death, she became pianist in an all-female band. Three years later she stopped a Broadway show, Sing Out the News, with her sultry rendition of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. But her break came with a chance to fill in for ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway...
...Peel off, Barney...