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...wrong side of the tracks to capture the trade of low-salaried Atlantans, snooted the carriage trade. Rich's kept its customers by reversing the slogan of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. ("No one is in debt to Macy's"), whose Davison-Paxon Co. is Rich's chief competitor. Rich's tried to make sure that as many customers as possible were in debt to it, by a liberal credit policy encouraged everyone to keep buying. Some families owed Rich's $100 or more for three generations. Rich's adjustment policy...
Mother Hen to Jazz. There were good men on the bandstand: Saxman Bud Freeman; cocky, stocky Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, who blows the horn out of the side of his mouth; zoot-suitish Clarinetist Joe (Little Sir Echo) Marsala, Drummers Dave Tough and George Wettling-all members of ragtime's Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop...
...will study the questions of tutorial and course content, will publish a report similar to those of the Council's Education Committees of 1939, 1940, and 1942. Although the membership is not yet final, the following men are now included in the group: Richard D. Campbell '48, Peter H. Davison '49, Roger S. Kuhn '46, Saul Sherman '47, John Silverstone '49, Peter S. Steffens '47, Alfred Traverse, Jr. '47, and Francis E. Williams...
This underground bistro has since become the Ken Club, where such bands as those of Red Allen, Bill Davison, Gene Sedric, and Frankie Newton played in the period from Pearl Harbor until early '44, after which a new entertainment policy featuring a juke box was adopted...
...other day I ran into Johnny Field, who played bass with Bill Davison's all star crew at the Ken in 1943. Personnel included the late Rod Cless, clarinet, James P. Johnson, plan, Kaiser Marshall, drums, Sandy Williams, trombone, and Bill himself on cornet...