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...evening wear, there are dozens of bars with entertainment and thousands without. In the former category, Ryan's, Condon's, and Birdland, all discussed elsewhere on these pages, stick to instrumental jazz. So does Nick's, Seventh Ave, and 10th, where Muggsy Spanier is the feature, and The Embers, 54th near Third, with Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo. Irving Fields, and on Sundays Bobby Hackett...
...others back from the 1951 squad are junior letterman Dick Lionette, another junior Jim Urdan, and senior Ambie Redmond. They are getting a lot of competition for starting berths from four members of last year's all-New York freshman starting team, '54 Captain Bill Dennis, Ed Blodnick, Ed Condon, and Ed Krinsky. Other sophomores in action now are Steve Goldberg. Bill Coolidge, Ari Kiev, and Bob Parente. The present squad is rounded out by junior Al Davis...
Other oldtimers around town couldn't keep away. Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon ("What kind of a sophisticated place is this? I can't even send drinks to the bandstand") and even Red's exwife, Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, kept dropping in. To remind others where they first heard his name, Red Norvo kept salting his half-hour stands with such tunes as Strike Up the Band, Night and Day, Sweet Georgia Brown-songs he used to rap out on his "woodpile" (xylophone) with Paul Whiteman's band 20 years...
...Condon advised all persons in or out of the Government not to be "buffaloed into giving up" if they find themselves targets of "smear attacks" on their loyalty. "Get a good lawyer and fight. That is the only way we are going to stop these nonsensical excesses." But even the bouts with "riffraff in Congress," he added, have their compensations. "When you are subject to a public attack, as I was, people rally around you, and you find you have friends you never knew about...
Having got this valedictory off his chest, Dr. Condon was through with Washington, where he was rated as one of the ablest scientists ever to serve the Government. He will return to private life as research chief of the Corning Glass Co., which has never been accused of subversive activity...