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...first "X" recordings go back to the '20s, when many a later famed jazzman was playing with a now all but forgotten outfit, e.g., Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller and Jimmy McPartland turn up in Ben Pollack and His Orchestra. Others from the '20s: Eddie Condon's Hot Shots, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers. From the '30s: Jimmie Lunceford and His Chickasaw Syncopators and the legendary Jimmy Yancey, who beats out eight beautiful blues and boogies. RCA engineers managed to clean up the old masters until the recorded sound is as smooth...
...Condon's news, obviously intended to be got into print: because Oppenheimer had testified against a man he thought had been a Communist. he must be losing his mind. Wrote Condon: "I understand that Oppie has been in a very high state of nervous tension in the last few weeks. People from Princeton say that he seems to be in a great state of strain for fear he himself will be attacked. Of course he knows that he has so much of a record of leftist activities ... It appears that he is trying to buy personal immunity from attack...
Four days later, Condon wrote Oppenheimer. Said he, in part: "One is tempted to feel that you are so foolish as to think you can buy immunity for yourself by turning informer. I hope that this is not true. You know very well that once these people decide to go into your own dossier and make it public that it will make the revelations that have been made so far look pretty tame...
...Condon's letter, of course, proved nothing against Oppenheimer's loyalty or integrity. But it did prove that McCarthy has no monopoly of smearing, and that one liberal scientist could impute the basest motives to another member of the great international fraternity...
...Condon concluded his letter: "Let me know by wire if you have not received this letter by Sunday...