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DeDe Pierce's trumpet leads the touring group, which takes its impulsive rhythm from Billie Pierce's constant piano figures and from the steady drumming provided by Cie Frazier on snare, cymbals, bass and woodblock. The music emphasizes collective improvisation, with Willie Humphrey harmonizing the upper voice on the clarinet and Big Jim Robinson filling in on trombone below, with the lowest harmony coming from Allan Jaffe--who runs Preservation Hall and manages the group--on bass horn. The earliest groups has other instruments, like banjo or string bass, and these can be heard on the groups' two most recent...
...mild-mannered accountant found it childishly easy. One of the company's suppliers was Marcel et Cie. When Marcel Ermacora typed out their checks, he banged hard on the "Marcel," holding back on the "et Cie." When the checks were returned with a company official's signature for payment, he merely typed his last name in and ran laughing all the way to the bank. It was the firm's bank that noticed the ever-mounting number of checks made out to him for large amounts. Realizing the firm was on to something, he fled the scene...
...senior State Department officials have chipped in to re-elect Rooney. Among them: Angier Biddle Duke, Ambassador to Denmark, $100; Perry Culley, Consul General in Paris, $300; Charles Manning, Consul General in Bermuda, $1,000; William Foster, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Dis armament Agency, $300; Michel Cie-plinski, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administrative Affairs, $500; Frank Meyer, Special Assistant for Congressional Relations, $400. In all, 13 State Department officials and the wife of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, Idar Rimstad, contributed $4,175 to the Rooney coffers...
...little investors into their operations. In France, the Rothschild Bank chose its 150th anniversary to announce that Messieurs de Rothschild Freres, as the bank is formally known, is expanding from investment banking into a commercial bank serving smaller depositors. And in Belgium, the huge chemical company of Solvay et Cie. held a meeting at which 1,800 family "partners" discussed increasing Solvay's capital by selling shares to the European public...
...farmer, he became a Luftwaffe general-staff major assigned to assessing war needs. "That was my first strong contact with industrial planning," he says. At war's end he took a clerk's job in Mannheim with the German subsidiary of the Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Cie, which makes all kinds of electrical equipment from home appliances to locomotives. Within twelve years, Lotz rose to chairman. He and the Swiss fell out over a small computer company in which he had invested to compete with U.S. computer makers, only to have it lose money. Lotz...