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...Like This ... In New Orleans, cops found Lawrence Dorsey sitting in a parked automobile behind a suburban bank, locked him up despite his protestations that one of his two loaded pistols was a war souvenir and he just didn't know where the other one had come from...
...Three Rivers, Mass., where he was raised, Ronald Dorsey was a leader in the Young People's Association. Last week in Quezon City on the edge of Manila, blue-eyed, 20-year-old Ronald Dorsey was the Philippine army's most highly prized prisoner...
When Ronnie came to the Philippines in 1949 as a U.S. Army private, he expected to find life there exciting. He was bored by his duties as a clerk with the 29th Topographical Engineer Battalion at the U.S. Army base in Cavite. Last October Ronnie Dorsey and Benjamin Advincula, a Spanish-Filipino employee of the U.S. Navy, lit out for the local headquarters of the rebel Huks...
...wagon began to roll last fall when Jimmy Dorsey played hooky from his big dance band long enough to record Johnson Rag and a Dixieland version of Charley My Boy with an easygoing eight-piece group called the Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band. The relaxed, free-wheeling music caught the public's ear, and the Dorseylanders quickly followed with an album including such old standards as Jazz Me Blues, South Rampart Street Parade, and High Society. The album soon hit Variety's list of the top-five bestsellers, has stayed there for six weeks...
Other bandleaders decided to take a ride too. Phil Harris cut in with Muskrat Ramble and Walk with a Wiggle, planned also to make his next album with a New Orleans beat. Tommy Dorsey hastily reassembled his old Clambake Seven to record Way Down Yonder in New Orleans and Tiger Rag. Gene Krupa parked his successful 16-piece band, picked up a six-man crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong...