Word: frontmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough. When a Hazard voter suggested some songs, Happy was agreeable. "You git us a git-tar," he said, "and we'll have a singing today." A past master at gladhanding. Chandler greeted all constituents as "Brother," or "Honey," glibly filled in the proper names as his local frontmen supplied them: "Good to shake your hand, Mrs. Lewis. You know my daughter married a Lewis, honey. Say hello to Mr. Lewis for me." Whenever possible, he applied the personal touch: a fervent handclasp, an embrace, a clutched arm, a kiss...
...that the Princeton line is heavy or especially strong. But it is very fast and very clever. Tiger frontmen could pull out of the line with sufficient skill to execute Coach Caldwell's complex maneuvers and when a Princeton back broke away he could always be sure of picking up blockers who would clean up the secondary. Harvard linemen haven't the speed to catch up with Clasby, and the sophomore tailback, however astutely he would a camper through the line or around an end, was sure to run ultimately into a mess of opposition secondary...
Turmpeter Davison, clarinetist Buster Bailey, and trombonist Vic Dickenson are all fine frontmen, and Art Trappier, Johnny Fields, and George Wein furnish a steady background. But each of the horn-players is outstanding on only one of the three qualities that make up a great jazzman--tone, imagination, and the indefinable "drive." Bailey, from years of playing behind Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, possesses all the taste and tone in the group, ensemble specialist Dickenson has the musical imagination, and Davison alone carries the unit along with his driving-and-rocking school of musicianship...