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...only Beethoven's Ninth, but his Fifth and Fourth!" He expressed a lukewarm desire to play more, but spent most of his time relating the hardships of the radio world, "You can't push any ads on a classical show, and places like Wally's (a local jazz emporium) don't want to advertise on it. You can't run classical in the afternoon because people want disk jockeys. At seven in the evening they want adventure shows." Mr. Goldberg finally broke down and admitted that he might play good music somewhere in the 7:30 to 10:00 block...
Atlanta's Rich's Inc.,which usually does not start buying fall goods until May, has already bought up half its supply of wool clothing, blankets and sweaters. San Francisco's huge Emporium is bulging with all the things that are expected to become hard to get-furniture, woolens, metal goods, etc. Said a New York liquor dealer: "There's so much whisky stacked on Manhattan that an A-bomb blast would plaster half of Philadelphia...
Wild Bill Donovan blows his trumpet as hard as he can at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, with Edmund Hall on the clarinet and Gene Scroeder at the drums. Young Ralph Sutton's piano playing make for the best intermission in years...
Arizona-born Hector Escobosa drew his first bead on the business world as a schoolboy window dresser (at no pay) for San Francisco's cavernous Emporium. While attending the University of California nights, he moved on to sales promotion and dress buying at Hale Brothers, and after a stint as vice president and manager of Kansas City's big-volume Jones department store, became boss...
...best trombone in the east at Jimmy Ryan's, on the once famous segment of 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth. Pops Foster was already the best bass player when your father was half your age. Wild Bill Davison leads the band at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, along with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder. Ralph Sutton plays between sets. Nick's features Pee Wee Erwin's enthusiastic group at 10th and Seventh...