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...film was made by LIFE'S famed fast-action photographer, Gjon Mili. Last summer he assembled some of the artists, Negroes all (save Barney Kessel),* who were playing Los Angeles, got them jamming on a Warner sound stage. Result: two numbers (On the Sunny Side of the Street and Jam Session) which, if not the best that hot players can do, are pretty certainly the most honest, down-to-earth popular music yet recorded for the screen...
...Marlowe Morris (piano), Sidney Catlett and Joe Jones (drums), Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax), Red Callender and John Simmons (bass), Harry Edison (trumpet), Barney Kessel (guitar...
...Rosenberg, has always been eventful. Born on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the son of a man "who, when people were doing passementerie, he handled fringe," Billy made the high-school track team by learning to jump the gun without detection, became a shorthand whiz and stenographer for Barney Baruch ("Baruch is still the only idol in my book"). But he aimed far higher, precipitantly invaded Tin Pan Alley. There, writing the lyrics for such song hits as Barney Google, Million Dollar Baby, Rainbow Round My Shoulder, he was soon making as much as $60,000 a year...
...Army Air Forces are getting ready for the last phase of World War II-the concentration of power against Japan. Last week Lieut. General Barney M. Giles, Chief of Staff of the A.F.F., gave the world an idea of what that power will...
...Said Barney Giles: "Our detailed plans cannot of course be disclosed but . . . are carefully laid to bring down on Japan the full weight of air power on a scale beyond anything they have imagined." The one limiting factor: land bases in the Pacific to accommodate the A.A.F.'s abundance of planes...