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...Tribute to Jazz, Ltd. (Jazz, Ltd. LP). A Chicago jive joint honors itself. Trombonist Miff Mole, Trumpeter Doc Evans & Co. provide the music: Tin Roof Blues, High Society, Jazz Me Blues, Charleston, done at length (eight minutes each) in easygoing Dixieland style...
...delegates began to arrive, William ("Doc") Reid, 73, Republican committeeman of Chicago's tough 16th ward for 36 years, issued some advice to conventiongoers: "Take your wife. Every candidate has a headquarters you can leave her at for entertainment while you go someplace else...Take three or four extra shirts and a dozen handkerchiefs to last you clear through. Handkerchiefs for wiping off perspiration. Bring along a box of your own brand of cigars. The kind they pass out at conventions are no good...
...Certainly," the doc said, reaching for a drawer full of state income-tax forms...
...People in Virginia have to pay federal income taxes too," the agent assured him. For a dreadful moment it was so quiet in the office that you could hear a tendon snap. "You're kidding," gasped the doc. But everyone thought the doc was kidding. Last week in federal court, even his own lawyer suggested that his story was "fantastic." The judge cried "Preposterous!" and fined...
Even worse, the Bureau of Internal Revenue asked the doc for back taxes. The T-men calculated that he owed them $22,000. At week's end, the doc was still protesting that he had committed no fraud. "I think the Government is partly to blame . . ." he cried. "Why did they let me go on like this for 30 years, anyway...