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James Duncan Phillips' book has none of the romance and the fresh salt air of Morison's unforgettable work; it is exact, down to earth, sometimes crabbed and partisan. Mr. Phillips is a retired businessman, for 25 years treasurer of Houghton Mifflin, and a local historian, the author...
-New York's Communist Daily Worker characterized the delegates in its own unique way, thus: Quo-"slick." Byrnes-"a small, crabbed . . . blinky, tight, screwed-up face . . . the sense of his words was sinister nonsense." Ala-"the little adventurer." Lange-"a serious, charming and humane individual." And as for Gromyko...
"In three days I missed five meals, was strafed by jet planes twice, narrowly missed capture once, was kissed by at least 500 Russians and Frenchmen, was absolutely lost in Germany twice, ate four candy bars in one afternoon after not eating candy for 15 years at least, got myself...
The most interesting sides, though, are "I'm Sober Now" and "Jump Steady Blues" for the evocation of the gin mill atmosphere. PT acts out whole scenes while he's playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these...
A 25-year-old Negro sharecropper laboriously, in crabbed script, wrote his last testament: