Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Famed Creole Pianist-Composer Ferdinand ("Jelly Roll") Morton (King Porter Stomp, Jelly Roll Blues, Alabama Bound), "the father of hot piano," talked and played almost every day for a month. Folklorist Lomax, co-author with his late father, John A. Lomax, of Folk Song U.S.A., etc., listened and recorded. What he heard (and later checked up on) adds up to more than mere reminiscent fodder for jazz fans. Mister Jelly Roll (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), published last week, is also the full-flavored story of a raucous, diamond-studded era of U.S. history, as seen and told by a mulatto...
...beginning for Ferdinand La Menthe (he changed his name to Morton because "I didn't want to be called 'Frenchy' ") was much like the end. He was born hard by the cribs of New Orleans' tough and fabled Storyville. When Author Lomax met him in 1938, he was pounding the piano in a dingy Washington nightspot. That same year, Jelly Roll was stabbed in a brawl there, and he died broke in Los Angeles...
...special train clacked alongside the muddy, swollen Potomac, through the apple-green Appalachians and across the Midwestern flatlands into the West. At the end was a bulletproof special car, the Ferdinand Magellan, and inside it was pessimism-proof Harry Truman, bound for the hunt...
Last week Dr. Ferdinand R. Schemm, chief investigator at the Western Foundation for Clinical Research in Great Falls, Mont., learned that the National Heart Institute would grant $33,000 in the coming fiscal year to advance the work which has already made the Schemm treatment for dropsy world-famous...
More Water. Ferdinand Ripley Schemm, 50, son of a Michigan doctor, had set his heart on being a surgeon. But after three years of practice his hands were so injured by X rays that he had to make a fresh start. Back at the University of Michigan, he studied internal medicine while his wife got her M.A. and wrote her first novel, Fireweed...