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...enthusiastic public acceptance of jazz. Whatever the reasons, it is still Armstrong who gets thousands for appearances at the vast showplaces and theatres, while Bechet plays at the far smaller Storyville, in the Hotel Buckminster at Kenmore Square, and in tiny Jimmy Ryan's, the only remaining "52nd Street dive" in New York. And Bechet's superb records are made for Bluenote, a specialized small company which neither advertises heavily nor licenses its records for broadcast...
...Loch Ness monster was in the 7th Century account of St. Columba's visit to the province of the Picts. He came to the river Nesa (the Ness) and found that an aquatic monster had just bitten and killed a Pict. So the saint ordered another Pict to dive into the water. The monster rose to take him as a salmon takes a fly, but the saint made the sign of the Cross "and the monster was terrified and fled away more quickly than if it had been dragged by ropes...
...Pacific. Young Bob left Yale (Phi Beta Kappa, Skull & Bones) during his third year to go overseas with the Yale Unit in the naval air force. In France he flew the lumbering British Handley Pages on some of the first night glide-bombing attacks, made a careful study of dive-bombing tactics which amazed his friends and delighted the Navy brass. The unit's historian summed up Lieut. Lovett in three words: "Observation, reflection, deduction-and there you were...
...view of a torpedo-blasted Japanese ship. Another strip showed another side of the submariner's life-a U.S. jazz trio playing a jam session 150 feet under the sea. He showed me many other interesting strips-a Navy plane's gun-camera record of dive-bombing a Japanese ship and an enemy ship's movie of a U.S. Navy plane attacking...
Everyone thinks it is a miracle that the boy has survived; but the miracle is repeated several times. Soon no Negro dares dive any more, and Ti-Coyo has a monopoly. Ti-Coyo remains singularly untroubled by moral scruples. With the money he makes, his family builds a new house with a tiled roof and Venetian blinds. Finally, when the great volcano of Mount Pelee erupts and leaves St. Pierre a cemetery of cinders,* Manidou saves Ti-Coyo and his family by guiding them to a safe shore. Love has repaid love...