Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austin High. When they weren't practicing themselves, they were listening to the big-timers-to King Oliver, the great New Orleans Negro trumpeter, or Beiderbecke and the Wolverines. Other Chicago kids began sitting in with the Austin High gang-one was a Hull House kid named Benny Goodman. When Bix left the Wolverines in Manhattan in 1924, they called for Jimmy, whom Bix once called "the greatest white trumpet man in the world." Later, Jimmy joined Ben Pollack's famed dance band. He and Benny Goodman quit when Pollack bawled them out one night for coming...
...with him during the war, and is now making a comeback-without one of his earlier singing stars, Perry Como. Last week Weems & his band opened in a famous jive spot, the College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, the oldest nightclub in the U.S., where Jazzmen Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Gene Krupa made some of their loudest noises, and biggest successes...
...book was handed to each of them. The book: the New Testament, plus the Book of Psalms and the Book of Proverbs. But last week, after the Gideon Bible Society had given away more than 2,500 copies, the Davenport Board of Education called a halt. Rabbi Abram Vossen Goodman of Davenport's Temple Emanuel had protested. Wrote...
...years, she is as legendary a name to pub crawlers as Artist Thomas Hart Benton. Her black lace gowns, glistening bangs and the artificial flowers in her hair are as familiar to old-style jazz fans as the war memorial in Union Station Plaza. Visiting jazz greats, like Benny Goodman, Red Norvo, Mildred Bailey and Bob Zerke, always seek her out when they hit town...
Holiday Inn. In Washington, D.C., Samuel Goodman, 59, staggered into jail, reported himself drunk, asked to be locked up. Reason: the jail had fed him so well at Thanksgiving that he wanted to be there for Christmas...