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...there is a brand of music which needs all the publicity it can get. It was the foundation of the whole swing craze of the past six years--hot jazz, the original "swing music," which was seized by the public fancy and diluted into almost unrecognizable cacophony. Swing became the all-inclusive word, embracing alike the beautiful solos of Louis Armstrong and the blatant output of so many contemporary bands. The result was that hot jazz was blamed for the excesses of the commercialized product...
...years ago a voracious Freshman was to wait only eight more days before he began the famous goldfish-eating craze, and things around the College certainly were not dull what with the swimming team trying to acquire a red Arctic goose for a mascot, with another wayward Yardling going out for a midnight snack in his brightest pajamas, and with the Crimson requiring its candidates to kiss all Radcliffe girls coming out of Fogg Art Museum...
...some of the most exciting jazz I've ever heard came from Benny's band at the Pennsylvania. Goodman's success is directly responsible for every good swing orchestra playing today, for if his music hadn't gone over back in 1936, we never would have had a swing craze, and you and I would have to be satisfied with Carmen Lombardo singing the St. Louis Blues, hot dog. Consequently I'd like to mention several of Benny's early recordings that you'd do well to buy before they become collector's items...
Seasoned Director Sam Wood (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Our Town) turns tail on his recent fragile work to make of Rangers of Fortune the most thrilling and funny movie brawl of the current Western craze. Without losing a gasp of suspense, he has fashioned his free-lance rangers into characters of such ludicrous gallantry, bravado and rough-&-tumble efficiency as to make his tale a classic parody on every horse opera ever produced. But with the technique of a master storyteller he inserts enough sex, sentiment and sock to keep his yarn well outside the bounds of buffoonery...
...rowboats scurried into Elliott Bay. Some anchored. Others rowed around. For four hours, ferryboats plying between Seattle and Bremerton had to detour to avoid the milling fleet. It was the grand finale of the Ben Paris Salmon Derby, oldest and biggest of the Pacific Northwest's latest sport craze...