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That did it. Last week London heard a disturbing rumor that generous Americans and Canadians (possibly influenced by an American jingle circa 1890)* were sending whole shiploads of peanuts. The circus managers had several anxious days. There would surely be a high howl in Britain over giving valuable food to animals when British children could use it; and there would surely be a shrill cry from U.S. zoophilists if peanuts intended for elephants were diverted...
Jazz Concert at Eddie Condon's (Decca, 8 sides) New 52nd Street Jazz (Victor, 8 sides). Condon's old guard (Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield, Pee Wee Russell and others) doggedly play The Sheik of Araby, Atlanta Blues, etc., Chicago style, circa 1928. The initiated will prefer it to Dizzy Gillespie's "bebopping" in the 52nd Street album...
Jean Borotra, famed "bounding Basque" of French tennis in its salad days (circa 1929), bounded back to glory at 48, in London sparked the French team to victory over Britain, eight matches to four. But he no longer bounded gaily over the net with outstretched hand at matches' end-now he just pushed the net down and soberly stepped across...
...most rococo columnist, went digging for facts in Colorado, after his fashion. To mine material for another nostalgic book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...
Actually, he never had it so good. He should have been in the Army--the Continental Army stationed in the American Theatre of Operations, circa 1777. George Washington put a few of his men up in Hollis and Stoughton for a night or two then, and although nobody knows whether or not double-decker bunkes were used, it is a matter of record that 640 soldiers slept, to to toe, in each of the two buildings for some length of time...