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...records convinced him: 1) that jazz was a very important type of music, 2) that the difference between good and bad jazz was worth serious critical consideration, 3) that this difference depended not on how jazz was written but on how it was played. To drive his points home, Connoisseur Panassié wrote a book called Le Jazz Hot which, translated into English, promptly became the swing fan's bible...
...sparkling citrus wine which Mr. Moore and his collaborator, Edward L. Gonyer, call Duo Carolus (freely translated, two dollars), is claimed by its makers to be almost indistinguishable from champagne. A connoisseur like Julian Street would probably not agree, but it takes only 60 days to make, in comparison with the four to six years necessary for real champagne. Duo Carolus costs $2 a fifth gallon as against $6.50 to $8 for a good bottle of imported grape champagne. Messrs. Moore and Gonyer plan to make 150,000 bottles a year...
POEMS NEW AND SELECTED-Melville Cane-Harcourt, Brace ($2). One hundred and fourteen dissolutely inconsequential lyrics by an American connoisseur of Imagism...
Though he follows international affairs with a lively interest, Composer Strauss is fundamentally a man of old-world tastes. A connoisseur of painting, he prefers, and owns, pictures by El Greco, Rubens, Tintoretto. His favorite reading is history and biography, and he will spend many hours at a stretch poring over formidable, many-volumed records of the past...
Next to Franklin Roosevelt's and the Cheshire Cat's, perhaps the most famous smile in the world is that on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa Gioconda, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris. Dr. Maurice Goldblatt, Chicago art connoisseur, believes her expression is a tremendous trick achieved with a compass, the ends of the lips being turned up in arcs which, if extended, would precisely meet the corners of the eyes...