Word: ella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swing is here to stay." That was the verdict handed down last night by Harlem's Chick Webb, whose orchestra is currently at Levaggi's uptown Flamingo Room, and Ella Fitzgerald, his nineteen year old vocalist...
Chick holds a unique position, for in addition to being the leader of the band and also a top-ranking drummer, he is Ella Fitzgerald's legal guardian. He assumed this responsibility four years ago when, in search of a vocalist for his band, he happened to hear Ella at a Harlem amateur show. Within a few days he had signed papers releasing her from a Brookyn orphan asylum and making her his own ward...
Attributes Success to Ella Fitzgorald...
...nondescript magazine called the Farmer's Wife. Its publisher was Edward A. Webb who also ran The Farmer, a poultry paper. Horace Klein carried back to St. Paul "Uncle" Henry's message and Publisher Webb decided to let his India-born, missionary-trained sister, Dr. Ella S. Webb, try her hand at missionary work among farm women. He made her editor of the Farmer's Wife and under her zealous direction the monthly magazine thrived...
White-haired but exuberant and bouncing Ella Reeve Bloor, 75. "Mother" of U. S. Communism returned last fortnight from three months in the Soviet Union. Now the No. i female member of the Central Committee of the American Communist Party, with a record of twelve grandchildren and 36 arrests. Mother Bloor last week gave her impressions of Communism in Russia...