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...hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land of Oo-bla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Land of Oo-bla-dee | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...night in June, 1928, a tall, ministerial figure strode upon the national scene and introduced himself in prodigious basso tones as follows: "If anyone has- any difficulty-in hearing me-in the remotest cor-rners of this hall-do not bla-ame it on Calif-o-ornia-but bla-ame it on Ka-ansas City!" It was great-voiced John L. McNab, San Francisco lawyer, placing his good friend, Herbert Clark Hoover, in nomination for the Presidency of the U. S. Then John L. McNab retired from the national scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sub-sub-Committee of One | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Besides reorganizing executive forces, he will study the notorious delays of Federal Court procedure. When his findings are ready perhaps his great voice will intone: "If anyone has any difficulty in hearing me in the remotest corners of this nation, do not blame it on Calif-o-ornia, but bla-ame it on Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sub-sub-Committee of One | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...anyone has-any difficulty-in hearing me-in the remotest cor-rners of this hall-do not bla-ame it on Calif-o-ornia-but bla-ame it-on Ka-ansas.City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Nomination | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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