Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Columbia University Press completed a monumental ten-year job-reprinting in 22 facsimile volumes (price $88) a complete file of Defoe's Review, a weekly, biweekly and triweekly newspaper of opinion which he wrote singlehanded between 1704 and 1713. Before becoming a newspaperman at 45, Defoe had been a butcher, hosiery factor, wine importer, government lottery agent, tile manufacturer, South Sea speculator, bankrupt and convict. In 1703 he spent three days in the stocks (see cut) for publishing an annoying political pamphlet. Between jail terms he plumped mightily for freedom of the press, took secret cash...
Delius Society Album No. 3 (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with the BBC and Royal Opera Choruses; Columbia: 14 sides). Blind, British-born Composer Delius spent much of his youth on a Florida orange plantation, remembered the singing of Florida Negroes, later based one of his finest tone poems, Appalachia, on these memories. The four-year-old Delius Society's best album to date contains Appalachian first recording, plus a sheaf of smaller items...
Graduated from Yale, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, in 1909, Moses received his Master's degree from Oxford two years later and wrote his doctoral dissertation in political science at Columbia...
...with Goodman (guitar) are all playing with the band. And Mr. Teagarden himself, known to the trade as "Big Gate," is going to lead the four man trombone section. Jack was playing hot trombone when Tommy Dorsey was playing licks on a milk bottle. Listen to "Texas Tea Party" (Columbia 31671) of "Moonglow" (Columbia 2927D, all made with the old Goodman band, to hear what Teagarden can do with a trombone. Thus while the quality of the band as a whole is an unknown, inspiring jazz is a certainty next Friday night...
...Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James' being the first) is Teddy Wilson's bunch, scheduled to start in late March . . . The height of something is that Doctor Randall, formerly professor of medicine at Columbia University, is joining Red Norvo's band at the Raymor to take over the clarinet chair...