Word: elman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pets, who held Studio 36 against all comers for the rest of the night. A guest rooster flew off during a rooftop show, turned up later in the Tenderloin. Only this month, while Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was guest master of ceremonies in the absence of the Lobby?, Founder Dave Elman, a visiting porcupine wrapped himself around a microphone, cut the show off the air for a half-minute. But none of these little mishaps had any serious aftermath...
...last year have been note for note copies of someone else. First, "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie), then "Wrappin' It Up (Fletcher Henderson), "Topsie" (Basie), and now "Sent For You Yesterday and Here You Come Today" (Basie). This latest copy goes to the extent of having Ziggie Elman play Buck Clayton's trumpet solo. It's a very good record, with fine piano by Stacy, and good blues singing by Johnny Mercer; but the rhythm section just can't stay with Basie's and no white man could ever sing the blues like "Rush" (Jim Rushing) can. Ella Fitzgerald sings...
Bublitchki (Ziggy Elman; Bluebird), novelty-of-the-month. Jewish folk song by Benny Goodman's band (minus the brass section), featuring a riffling trumpet chorus by Mr. Elman...
Without calling the roll of all great musicians, TIME suggests that the following bear out its generalization: When he was 4, Beethoven began studying music, knew as much as his teacher-father by the time he was 9. Other first appearances: Heifetz and Elman at 5, Mozart and Josef Hofmann at 6, Fritz Kreisler at 7, Chopin at 8, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rubinstein, Harold Bauer at 9, Cesar Franck and Schumann...
...only law officer accused. Star witness was thick-necked, freely-sweating Thomas R. Middleton, who served five months for bootlegging before he was elected High Sheriff of Harlan County in 1934. Member of one of the section's largest families. Sheriff Middleton once had a distant cousin named Elman Middleton who was prosecuting attorney of Harlan County and started a crusade for miners' rights. Two years ago Cousin Elman stepped on his automobile starter, went up in a confetti of steel, flesh and dynamite. Since 1934, said the sheriff, he had appointed 379 deputies, of whom only...