Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson's rippling piano. But the event of the evening was the "jam session," effacingly noted as "no doubt the greatest contradiction a swing program could offer," but in effect a blaring success. Amiable Mr. Goodman seated himself in his reed section, his professional spectacles gleaming, and Count Basic began thumping a blues on the piano. For two or three choruses it looked as though the boys were not going to get off. Then the afflatus descended, Goodman took a chorus, Trumpeter Harry James cut one and the whole group swung out. The audience of 3,000, infected, pounded...
Turning to more practical affairs, the blank demands, "Have you a car?"; "Would you bring it with you to New York?"; and, getting right down to basic facts, "How much money are you prepared to spend...
Practice. One quality these new buildings have in common is the clarity with which their basic problems have been grasped and solved. In Racine, Wis., Contractor Ben Wiltscheck is now finishing a business building for S. C. Johnson & Son (see cut) which is unlike any other in the world. A few miles from Racine, President Herbert Johnson has let Wright build him a house which lies along the prairie in four slim wings. A huge chimney with fireplaces on four sides is in the focal living room. At Bear Run, Pa., Wright has just finished his most beautiful job, "Fallingwater...
...basic income of the average golf professional is derived from the sale of golf balls. If he is employed by a country club of average wealth and size, the average professional's revenue from teaching, the sale of golf equipment and the concession for shining the members' clubs amounts to about $5,000 a year. In the winter months, when the majority of the 2,000,000 golfers in the U. S. turn their hands to bridge and the radio, the majority of the jobless professionals go south. Some are hired to accompany rich club members to their...
Last month General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. established the $10,000,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to promote "a wider knowledge of basic economic truths generally accepted as such by authorities of recognized standing." This week the foundation surprised cynics, who feared the money might be used as a propaganda fund for big business, by turning over the income on $1,000,000-between $35,000 and $40,000-to the University of Chicago. Not sure yet how it would use the gift, the university emphasized it had been given complete freedom to decide what truths to broadcast...