Word: feather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other four sides the gauntleted hand of Director Leonard Feather, whose outlook on hot music is in general futuristic, can be detected. Tenor saxophonist Don Byas, and violinist-trumpeter Roy Nance, vie with each other to see who can try the most technical innovations in sixteen minutes. Nance even drags in a little pizzicato on one of his opening violin choruses. Through it all, however, snatches of Heywood may be heard which, though a bit incongruous in such company are responsible for whatever merit there is in this half...
...when the congressional committee probing surplus property called on Littlejohn to testify, he was expected to announce the sale, a nice feather in WAA's badly battered hat. But what Boss Littlejohn told the committee flabbergasted everyone. Said he: all bids for the Inches were off because "I do not feel that any of them guarantees to the Government what I consider a fair price . . . $113,700,000." Moreover, said he, the Army-Navy Petroleum Board had previously wanted the pipelines used for oil only. Now it would permit either...
Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10 p.m., Mutual). Clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow gets in some licks for his new book, Really the Blues. Critics: Guitarist Eddie Condon and Esquire's Leonard Feather...
What happens is funny, relevant and packed with real insight into the Washington circus. Pat Frank knows his bureaucrats and readers are beginning to have fears about this atomic business. Combine the two and you have several hours of pleasant, if feather-light reading...
...their first triumphant postwar conclave, the Witnesses cast off wartime tribulations. In Germany, their disdain for human authority had tumbled 6,000 of them into concentration camps. In the U.S., their religious scruples against saluting the flag had vexed mobs to tar & feather them and burn their homes. Over 4,000 had gone to jail for refusing either to serve in the armed forces or to be classified as conscientious objectors; Witnesses claimed they were all ministers of the gospel. But the Witnesses had thrived and multiplied a bit on a diet of rough treatment...