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GEORGE GERSHWIN--EVERYONE remembers him. But Edward Elzear ("Zez") Confrey? Pauline Alpert? John Green? Dana Suesse? Today no one can even pronounce some of these names, yet once upon a time--back in the 1920s and '30s--all four of these pianist-composers thrilled large audiences with a scintillating mix of ragtime, jazz and classical sounds that became known as novelty piano. Lost in the shadows cast by Gershwin's brilliance, they have been forgotten, and undeservedly...
...Chicago, 18,000 people paid $59,625 to see gargantuan Primo Camera fight a French-Canadian slugnut named Elzear Rioux. Because Rioux, 63¼ Ibs. the lighter, only lasted 47 seconds, taking six knockdowns in that time and never landing a punch, the Illinois State Athletic Commission withheld the purse. The Commission felt that Rioux had been too consistently horizontal for the fight to be honest. Carnera's friends insisted he was being penalized merely because, in a profession full of chicanery, the prowess of an honest monster taxed credulity...
Paperman Graustein did not realize the power of Premier Taschereau. The Hon. Louis Alexandré Taschereau is of a family superpotent in Quebec politics. His father, the Hon. Jean Thomas Taschereau, was a judge of the supreme court. Still more important was his uncle, the late great Elzear Alexandré Taschereau, dour-faced Archbishop of Quebec, first Canadian Cardinal, a founder of Laval University and for over 50 years an immense power in the life of the province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely...
Great works have been wrought in the hills of New Hampshire since the day when Elzear Wheelock made his way up the Connecticut river to found Dartmouth College. He was enthusiastic in his desire to start a school for the education of the Indians in the ways of God and the white man's civilization, little dreaming that in 150 years the modest institution would change into a college of national reputation...
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