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...music in the air at a cushiony East Side Manhattan nightclub last week was jazz all right-but subtle and discreet jazz. It was partly the instruments; there just isn't much blare in a guitar, bass fiddle and vibraphone. But it was mostly the sandy-haired man behind the "vibes." Oldtimer Red Norvo undoubtedly was, as Metronome said, "the new thrill...
...wholesome thump of foot on pigskin and the blare of 25,000 brass bands sounded over the land. Yet in the autumn of 1951, even the appetite for football was soured by the breath of scandal. More serious was the fact that investigations of organized crime growing out of the Kefauver hearings were getting nowhere. In New York a swarthy little gambler called Harry Gross insolently defied the law to do its worst, and the district attorney could only weep in helpless anger...
...this is not surprising. During the last fortnight his confusion has been built into delirium. Every night at dinner two giant speakers blare weird music at him. It is the music that is distracting his mind. It is the music that is making the milk sours and the spoons disappear. It is a violation of most fundamental human rights to dignity, and peace, and privacy...
Women were a pet peeve. They were "of three sexes-the fair sex, the bare sex, and the blare sex." Even though she knew his reputation as "The Wickedest Man in San Francisco," Socialite Mollie Day, daughter of a rich Forty-Niner, married him in 1871. It was not a happy match, and after 17 years and three children they separated. Meanwhile, Bierce went on writing grotesque and macabre tales. In one, a father is decapitated by a mowing machine, in another a man bashes in his wife's head with a mallet, in a third a dog gnaws...
...rector (TIME, Oct. 30), stood up to make his acceptance speech in St. Andrew's Halls, he was greeted with a shower of overripe tomatoes, firecrackers, toilet paper and bursting flour sacks. His address, which he manfully finished in spite of it all, was punctuated by the blare of trumpets, sirens and whistles. One student dressed in long underwear ran on to the stage bearing a torch; later, someone released a quacking duck at MacCormick's feet. Two other students stretched a rope across the auditorium, did acrobatics in midair...