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...night last week at a sight seldom seen in such society. Fat old Clarinetist Darnell Howard had laid down his licorice stick, was making his way to the stand with a big white cake decked with three blue candles. He set the cake down, beckoned to a little cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts consider the best white jazz cornetist in the business,* grinned sheepishly. It had been just 30 years since Muggsy Spanier first split the smoky air of a dive...
...What Europe needs is a spiritual Marshall Plan," says the institute's founder and principal, Frederick H. Squire. Evangelist Squire, 46, began saving souls at the age of ten as a soprano cornetist in the Salvation Army. He spent twelve years in the Army, and in 1930, he set out to tour Britain as a free-lance evangelist. As a welfare worker on the Continent after World War II, Squire was shocked at the spiritual as well as physical deprivation the Nazis had left behind them; when he returned to England he set up a school especially to train...
...Pianist. 4. Cornetist...
Back in the days when the Crimson Stompers were getting organized, they held their practice jam sessions down on Coolidge Hill Road behind Stillman Infirmary at the home of Charles H. Taylor, professor of History. And they had a cornetist sitting in with the band whose playing Walter H. Gifford, Jr. '52, drummer and manager of the group, describes as a "mean cornet a la Max Kaminsky." The horn-player's name was Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of Harvard College...
Married. Francis Joseph ("Muggsy") Spanier, 46, sad-eyed hot-jazz cornetist; and Ruth Gries O'Connell, 44, onetime advertising copywriter; both for the second time; in Chicago...