Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Manhattan Charles Edward Smith, historian (Jazzmen) and friend of America's native rhythms, produced through new General Records Co. an album of barrelhouse tunes played by the greatest surviving barrel-houser-54-year-old Ferdinand ("Jelly Roll") Morton. The album's title is Jetty Roll Morton's New Orleans Memories, and both musically and otherwise Jelly has much of interest to remember...
Last week a fourth stocky figure joined Café Society's three boogie-woogie graces. Though similarly barrel-shaped, the new comer was white and wore a beard. He was Proseur Elliot Paul, longtime Paris expatriate, onetime editor of the word-shattering magazine Transition, author of one good book, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town (TIME, June 28, 1937). A humdinger on the piano-accordion, Novelist Paul last winter got so interested in boogie-woogie that he took time off from writing detective stories to study boogie-woogie piano, under High-Priest Ammons. Last week he showed...
...year ago Glenn Cunningham's foot-racing crown seemed glued to his head. Although he had been running for eight years, barrel-chested, iron-legged King Cunningham could still beat all comers at a mile, had set two world's records only the year before. Then one fine night, out of the ruck came Chuck Fenske, a bespectacled 23-year-old, to hand Cunningham his first defeat in 21 mile races...
...Among the few exceptions: Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days of rubber-stamp legislation, 1933; pork-barrel appropriation bills...
Fierce, outspoken, daredevil, vodka-loving, horse-smelling, barrel-chested, mustache-proud* Cossack Budenny is probably the only man in Russia who has never kowtowed to Boss Stalin. He survived all the purges because of 1) his popularity with the people, and 2) his value to the Army. He was made a Field Marshal in 1935, Commander of the Moscow District in 1937, Vice-Commissar of Defense last year. Although a past master of guerrilla warfare, when he cannot fight guerrilla-style he adopts the tactics of Confederate General Nathan Bedford ("Git-Thar-Fust-With-The-Mostest-Men") Forrest and relies...