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Alumni of genial, ruddy Hugo's numerous publications today hold many important positions in the U.S. radio industry. They fondly call Gernsback "the old buzzard." At 59, Hugo presides over a shabby Manhattan office where he has a death mask of his good friend, the late, great, grandly eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.* Hugo Gernsback has never made much money out of his astounding ideas...
Fred Sullens, editor of his own paper, can write what he wants to write, and does. Once, when a politician he opposed was scheduled to make a speech, Sullens announced: "There will be a buzzard swarming at Poindexter Park tonight. If you have buzzard appetite, go out and enjoy yourself. But please go home to do your puking. It costs money to clean public parks. . .." Another time, when Mississippi's Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo visited Europe after being elected a second term, Sullens wrote: "When Bilbo reached Denmark, the band played 'God Save the Queen...
...Buzzard (too similar in sound to bastard...
...players. Bunny Berigan, in particular, must be pretty envious when he listens to his work with Mildred Bailey, Bud Freeman's Windy City Five, and his own pickup band, playing with a power and assurance which he seems to have lost. Records like "Chicken Waffles" and "The Buzzard" show the way he played before he began to spend all his time groping about his shaky upper register for the edification of the assembled jitterbugs. All of which shows what years of constantly playing down to the crowd have done to the quality of trumpeting of just one of a number...
...Townsend, Arthur Tarlow, and Mchael Thompson defeated their Tech opponents 4 and 3, 3 and 2, and 2 up. In the first best-all match, Don Davis and Townsend downed Gueillini and Buzzard of M.I.T...