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What comes out of Lester Young's saxophone sounds to some people like a snow shovel being dragged along a bare sidewalk. Peewee Russell's distinctive improvisations have been compared to those of a dying quail. But neither simile is apropos in the case of Bud Freeman. His playing is not as raucous as Young's nor as feeble as Russell's. It is subdued, vibratoed, and a little raspy like the sound of an electric shaver after it has been dropped a couple of times...
...Bud Freeman used to render his soles in the "hesitation" style, i.e., he would pause every three or four bars to think up a new idea, and this procedure made his work come out like a patchwork quilt. The new post-war model is smoother and more continuous. When not given to abandoned flights of the imagination and on tunes which are not so fast and gusty that they shake the instrumentalists out of all their ideas before the record is half through, Freeman's acrid, trembling tone and curious phrasing can, as in this case, produce tasteful and distinctive...
...Pantagraph's present publisher, six-foot Loring "Bud" Merwin, is a fourth generation descendant of old Jesse Fell. Many newsmen consider his prairie daily one of the best-run small papers (circ. 32,000) in the U.S. For its wealthy rural readers, the Pantagraph runs more farm news than Prairie Farmer, backs its "clean and consistent record of internationalism" with full coverage of world affairs. (Adlai Stevenson, another Fell descendant and minority stockholder of the Pantagraph, is a U.S. Alternate Delegate to U.N.) Politically the Pantagraph has never hesitated to shuck its normal Republicanism when a Democrat looked better...
Woodie Grimshaw and Bud Schuster, the two regular wingmen, will start at the ends, while Big Bill McClellan and Captain Jim Lalikos will be in the tackle berths. McClellan, 220-pound tackle, has been one of the Bruin stars after being hampered by a pre-season leg injury that kept him out of the first few games...
Winthrop's big threat was in the pitching arm of Bud Weld, who was deadly at short range when he had time to get his passes away before practically the whole Lowell line broke through...