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...hand to this one, a pat on the back for that - a ward-boss patrolling his precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes all these familiar people seemed to be living in "a moderately well run penitentiary, which kept [them] working hard and provided a bunk to sleep in, three daily meals and enough clothes to keep [them] warm." It was a prison whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice could only be found within its bars, that outside was only disorder, strikes, uncertainty, unemployment, and exploitation. . . ." It differed from the Kansas State Penitentiary...
...occur in Boston on Monday, March 12, when five of the greatest living Now Orleans jazzmen gather together at the Savoy Cafe. The world famous soprano saxophone star, Sidney Bechet, will open a four weeks engagement at the Massachusetts Avenue club with a new Dixieland Band featuring Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, Hank Duncan, and Fred Moore. The Bechet quintet will also appear Monday night at 30 Huntington Avenue in a concert sponsored by the Boston Jazz Society. George Frazier, former CRIMSON columnist and present Theatre Editor of Life magazine, will be in town to cover what he terms "the jazz...
...music, playing clarinet in the Eagle Brass Band which paraded for festivals and funerals. In recent years Bechet has made many great jazz records with special studio bands and only last month he appeared as features star on Esquire's coast-to-coast jazz broadcast over the Blue Network. Bunk Johnson on cornet also played in the old Eagle Band, and by 1914 hen Bechet joined him he was already an old timer, having performed with King Bolden's Band...
Still, Small Voice. To thousands the official explanation-that the curfew was designed to save coal, manpower and transportation-was simply bunk. Mumbled a Chicago barfly: "Turn off the furnace and let us drink in our overcoats." Everywhere citizens pounced gleefully upon a shattering rebuttal: "It's going to be summer pretty soon...
...Seven months before World War II, the President was reported to have made the major (not minor) prophecy that the U.S. frontier was on the Rhine. He denounced the report as "a deliberate lie" and "100% bunk," said its originator was a "boob...