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...Geneva the League of Nations began preparing to evacuate, first to the French spa of Vichy, then if necessary to the European Clipper terminus, Lisbon. Bustling but dignified League Secretary General Joseph Avenol, a Frenchman, had already sent the League's more important documents ahead to France. "We are so disappointed that Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium failed to appeal to the League," commented a typical Secretariat bigwig. "The practical results might not have been great, but the appeals would at any rate have been on the League's records...
Back in 1936, when a few clever press agents were turning jazz into a commodity by calling it swing, a young Frenchman named Panassic wrote a book called Hot Jazz, which immediately caused a minor intellectual revolution in certain circles. Formerly, jazz had been for the common herd; now, with the exception of an isolated group of die-hards, the old snobbish attitude was thrown over, and the literati took record collecting and jazz criticism under their collective wing...
There are plenty of honest American cartoonists who could use the space given to this pilfering Frenchman...
...locale of The Hamlet is Frenchman's Bend, a little clump of houses sunk 20 miles deep in the country from Jefferson (presumably Oxford), Miss. The time is the late 19th Century. What the story's essential subject is, God-and just possibly William Faulkner-knows. Apparently it is a study of the village itself, chiefly in terms of an evil clan of intruders named Snopes. The volume is built in four books, like the four movements of a symphony...
From then on Jelly rose steadily to fame in his chosen profession, performing at places like Aunt Lucy's, Gypsy Schaeffer's and the Frenchman's. Waxing prosperous, he adorned his massive smile with a set of gold teeth, studded one of them with a diamond. In such lurid surroundings, Jelly and other locally celebrated colored musicians like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong were unconsciously shaping a folk music whose syncopated four-four time would later make the whole world dance and sing differently. In rediscovering and re-recording Jelly's simple and persuasive music, Charles...