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...early '30s he was making $1,000 a week at the country stuff, but in the bustling Chicago music scene, there was so much more to hear and play. In the morning he was hillbilly, and at night he was playing jazz with Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Cole and Art Tatum. He cut his first records in 1936, backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf's raunchy threat, "If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away." A year later, he formed his first trio, with...
...some flashy gigs - like a Jazz at the Philharmonic session with Nat Cole on piano and Illinois Jacquet on sax - but spent more time on electronic experimentation. He built a new guitar out of Epiphone parts and called it the Log. He used it in his recordings for the next decade. After assembling a recording studio in his garage (total cost: $415), he produced such performers as Gene Austin, the Andrews Sisters and his pal and patron Bing Crosby. His work with White, Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, as well as some Les Paul Trio sides, can be found...
...wrote a book in which he revealed the program's secret code name, Box Top . Moreover, it is well known that on Nov. 3, 2002, the CIA launched a Hellfire missile from a Predator drone over Yemen, killing an al-Qaeda member involved in the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. And who knows how many "targeted killings" there have been in Afghanistan and Iraq...
...course, giving you the chance to develop wonderful memories and friends across the Atlantic. I would strongly recommend a stint overseas to any of my friends—science concentrators like myself or otherwise. So, if you are ever given the opportunity to spend some time at École Polytechnique, absolutely don’t hesitate to do so. And if you do, please bring me back some cheese...
...Karin M. Jentoft ’10 is an engineering sciences concentrator in Dunster House. She studied at École Polytechnique during the fall semester...