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...Father Dustin is as well known for his accomplishments on the banjo as he is for his work at the city's Holy Redeemer Church. Songs Father Taught Me, a record album that he cut with his own Dixieland combo of six lay musicians, is the fastest-selling disk in town (more than 5,000 to date). Says Marvin Jacobs, general manager of Detroit's Music Merchants, Inc., Father Dustin's distributor: "In the language of the record industry, he's got it in the groove...
...over the U.S., a new order of restless American stalks city and countryside carrying tiny transistors. He can't stand silence. With his gadget turned up full-blast, the bleatnik goes about his pursuits with ear and mind cocked to sportscasts, disk-jockeywockey and what passes for pop music. He plods along, swinging his radio like an attaché case, or stuffs it into his shirt pocket, while the unrelenting blabber transists him like exhaust fumes. If he is using an earpiece receiver, identification may be more difficult, but there are certain telltale signs, as there are of hopheads...
...Hollywood Bowl, while the symphony orchestra plays live, a man watches transfixed as he listens to the fights over his earpieces. In drive-in movies, canny audiences follow the picture and their favorite disk jockey simultaneously, presumably liking neither well enough to concentrate...
After failing to file federal income tax returns from 1954 through 1958, former Chicago Disk Jockey Martin F. Hogan was hauled into court and handed a bill for $105,541 plus interest and penalties. Hogan had no excuse; so he pleaded no contest and threw himself on the mercy of the court. Despite Government lawyers' vehement objections, Hogan got more mercy than he could have expected. Judge Sam Perry saw fit to fine him only $10,000, offered to reduce the bite to $1,000 if Hogan paid $20,000 of his tax bill within 30 days...
...images of startling clarity, be congenial with both jazz and classics. Although much admired by jazzmen, he has remained largely unknown to the public. But last week Pianist-Arranger Jackson was finally coming into his own. His album of Jazz Variations on Movie Themes was a surprise hit with disk jockeys. He was busy scoring a new movie, planning new album material, and preparing the Gershwin Concerto in F for eleven concerts with the Hollywood Symphony. "When you talk about him," said Saxman Benny Carter, "you gotta be well versed in superlatives...