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Duke Ellington has done his first record for Victor, "Jack the Bear" and "Morning Glory". First is one of those esoteric stomps for which the Duke is famous, featuring marvelous bass by Jimmy Blanton. Latter has good trumpet by Rex Stewart. Recommended to those used to Duke's musical intricacies...
...that it is virtually Impossible to stay up with him. Especially recommended are "Tootin' Thru The Roof" with an amazing duet by trumpeter Rex Stewart and trombonist Lawrence Brown, "Little Posey," a driving ensemble disc, and "Blues," a duet with Duke on plano and his new bass find, Jimmy Blanton. Maybe Ellington doesn't have the polished technique ideas of some of the boys, but he has ideas--lots of them--and good ones...
...President offhandedly announced that the Navy's highest officer, Chief of Operations William Daniel Leahy, who is to retire soon, will replace Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years...
...damnable dastard. One by one, Democratic colleagues of Alfred Elliott left their seats near him. Had he pressed for a vote, Bud Gearhart could doubtless have caused Democrat Elliott to be the first Representative formally censured (called to the well for a wigging by the Speaker) since Tom Blanton of Texas in 1921, who wangled into the Record, in an extension of remarks, a string of obscenities so vile that they had to be expunged from the permanent Record, torn out of the Congressional Library's temporary copy...
...rich Oklahoma City utilitarian named Hubert Hudson sent him into the fertile, feudal Rio Grande Valley to run three newspapers, the Brownsville Herald, Valley Star (at Harlingen) and Monitor (at Me Allen). When he gave nationwide publicity to a King Ranch mystery, the famed Blanton case (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), South Texas thought Magee would "bust the Valley wide open." But soon he turned to more prosaic crusades in which his backer was interested: stabilization of the $125,000,000 citrus industry, improvement of the water supply. He became a worker for the Methodist Church...