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...army of flesh-and-blood matchmakers scours the site's database in search of potential matches for its thousands of Orthodox Jewish members. The model has been so successful that its founders are planning to replicate the service for alumni associations and non-Jewish religious groups. TIME's Adam Goodman spoke with Tova Weinberg, 54, the most popular of the site's 365 matchmakers...
...excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled twelve-year-old in short pants, union card or no union card. ''Keep away from the instruments, kid!'' they shouted. ''Get off the boat!'' Undaunted, the lad took out his horn and started to play. Case closed: two minutes later, Benny Goodman had joined Bix Beiderbecke's band. From that humble dockside audition grew the career of one of the century's most influential jazzmen and most enduring icons. It was Benny who set the teenagers of the 1930s stomping at the Savoy and sing, sing, singing with his soaring, exhilarating swing...
...demand as a sideman, earning up to $400 a week even as the Depression got under way. In 1933, he met John Hammond, a descendant of Commodore Vanderbilt's, who backed up his love for jazz with a considerable amount of cash. A year later, with underwriting from Hammond, Goodman formed his first band, which opened at Billy Rose's Music Hall in New York City. It was too intense and driving for a public conditioned to syrupy hotel orchestras. But for all its kick-up-your- heels abandon, Goodman's group was as highly disciplined as Arturo Toscanini...
...James Baxter is the Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow...
...imagined the spectacle as something like “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1835 tale of a husband in Salem who encounters a nocturnal meeting where “the smile of welcome gleamed darkly on every visage.” Among the clergy and sanctimonious elders he glimpses is his wife, she of the pink ribbons, ready for induction into the world of sin Goodman so fears. Afterward, Goodman becomes a silent, suspicious man, not trusting his wife, Faith...