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...Word slips through from New York that Teddy Wilson's new band will open at the Famous Door late in April; and that Bud Freeman is going to take a mixed band into one of the night spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started the breakdown of the Jim Crow traditions in regard to colored musicians playing with white, and it now looks as though a mixed band may have some chance for success. . . . Jimmy Dorsey's newest disc, "It's All Yours" has a vocal by Helen O'Connell that, despite the handicap of bad key, shows much improvement. Catch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

...OPENED THE DOOR OF JAPAN-Carl Crow-Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enshrined Diplomat | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Carl Crow (400 Million Customers), ex-Far East adman, is no diplomatic historian. The career of Townsend Harris interests him for its suggestion of Gilbert & Sullivan, its overtones of the Pandora Box story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enshrined Diplomat | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...feather-weaving by the Pomos and Paiutes of California and Nevada; weaving and silver work by the Hopis, Navahos, Apaches of the Southwest; bone and tusk carving by the Chinook and other fishermen of the Northwest; magnificent work with buffalo and elk skins by the Sioux, Blackfoot and Crow tribes of the plains; beautifully carved wooden ware of the Eastern Iroquois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nuggets | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Near New Berlin, the Illinois Conservation Department bombing crew set off their 13th rookery blast of the season. In a crow rookery a quarter-mile long, 180 specially designed dynamite bombs were exploded, killing an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 crows. Approximate number of crows killed this winter in Illinois' crow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: War | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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