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...Casa Cram in Monterrey (largest manufacturing centre in Mexico) distributes hardware and tools for Armstrong Manufacturing Co., Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co., abrasives for Carborundum Co., etc. Its owner: Herr Hans Cram, the Nazi Consul...
...this he's a budding newspaperman (sportswriter on PM) and has the right idea on how to put a paper together. Every issue contains record reviews and feature articles by critics and musicians who were all listening to this stuff back in the days when you and I though Casa Loma played hot music. In addition, there are cartoons by John Groth, whose work you know from Esquire and the New Yorker, and photographs by Charles Peterson, who is recognized as the leading photographer of swing musicians in the country...
...Conservatives winked at a plank in his platform promising honest elections, for they were used to winning by such practices as quarantining entire districts, placing voting booths in trucks which stopped only for Conservative voters, incapacitating opposition pollwatchers by sneaking laxatives into their food. But once settled in the Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House, which is pink), President Ortiz brought down the wrath of his Conservative supporters by taking his platform seriously. Honest elections might have perpetuated the Radicals in power if he had not had to leave the Pink House in ill health...
...ades of new public buildings and loud with the riveting of further construction. There was talk of building a resplendent new capitol out in suburban Quezon City. The dining rooms and bars of a huge new jai alai palace were going full blast. So was the new, prophetically named Casa Mañana nightclub...
...King Oliver has played better trumpet than on this one . . . "Peggy" by McKinney's Cotton Pickers--a good example of the playing of the band which introduced powerful ensemble work to jazz . . . "New Orleans Twist"--even though the arrangement is swiped from "Black Magic" which he did for Casa Loma (Brunswick), the trumpet playing of Bunny Berigan and Wingy Mannone makes this Gene Gifford worth getting...