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...been without a major orchestra since its main symphony backer, Industrialist Henry H. Richhold (chemicals), pulled out, purse and person (TIME, Sept. 5, 1949). Last week, following the lead of Detroit music critics, the town was beginning to get fired up over the idea of trying again. J. Dorsey Callaghan, the Detroit Free Press critic, even went so far as to ask "a conductor whose musical reputation is an international one" as to his availability for a job. In answer to his question, old (76) Serge Koussevitzky, who turned over his Boston Symphony to Charles Munch last year, replied: WILL
...first big job was playing piano for Trumpeter "Bunny" Berrigan in a hole in the wall in Manhattan's "Jazz Street" (West 52nd) called The Famous Door. In 1938, Tommy Dorsey, who then had a couple of staff singers named Jo Stafford and Frank Sinatra, picked Bushkin up from Berrigan. Dorsey hired him as a pianist even before he heard him play a piano; he liked his musicianship on the trumpet-an instrument Joe had taken up in high school. One of Joe's songs, Oh, Look at Me Now, was Sinatra's first solo...
...last March the Huks went on a village-raiding spree which cost them some of their popular support (TIME, April 10). Said Ronnie Dorsey: "The people began to tell on us ... and soon we found we couldn't go down to the villages without being exposed." In April the Philippine army took charge of the government's anti-Huk campaign. Since then, according to Dorsey's account, the Huks have been constantly on the run.* Sometimes the rebels were without food and water. "The officers got the gravy while the men killed one another over...
Colonel to Private. Two weeks ago Ronnie Dorsey and Benjamin Advincula lit out again, this time to surrender. To Philippine army intelligence, Ronnie gave a roster of the men and officers in his Huk group, tips on the location of Huk hideouts. In Dorsey's testimony that the Huks' troubles were increasing, the harassed government of President Elpidio Quirino saw excellent propaganda for use against its critics...
Last week adventurous Private Ronald Dorsey was remembering with nostalgia his quiet life with the U.S. Army. Said he: "I'd like to re-enlist ... if they'll take me back." He didn't like being called a deserter. "I didn't desert," he insisted. "I came back voluntarily...