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...right answer as possible while counting all the wrong answers twice as much. The poor examinee begins to wonder, after a does of this, whether Bix Beiderbecke played a horn or a bass viol. But the Great Collector usually goes on and on, relentlessly playing momentary snatches of Bobby Hackett's guitar, PeeWee Russell's saxophone, and Tommy Dorsey's trumpet cleverly hiding even the labels from view as he feeds ancient record after ancient record into the mouth of the phonograph...
Rebel-Rouser. In his yellow brick headquarters in Manhattan's Chelsea district, next door to a home for wayward girls and across the street from the General Theological Seminary, Croly assembled a motley crew of insurrectionists. Into his journal went some of the best of Walter Lippmann, Francis Hackett, Elinor Wylie, Rebecca West, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund Wilson. At his famous staff luncheons, everyone talked in low tones-in' deference to Croly's own shy near-whisper. In the eyes of New Republicans, Croly was a scholar journalist, and Oswald Garrison Villard, his opposite number...
George Gershwin: Jazz Concert (Eddie Condon and his orchestra; Decca, 8 sides). Condon's guitar gives rhythm to Jack Teagarden's fine trombone, Bobby Hackett's clean, relaxed trumpet and Singer Lee Wiley's blue do on Someone to Watch over Me and The Man I Love. Along for the ride are Condonites Pee Wee Russell, Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield and others. Performance: good...
Most famous jazz spot in pre-war Boston was the old Theatrical Club, corner of Warrenton and Tremont, where beginning in 1937 after-hour highballs were served to the accompaniment of Bobby Hackett's band. The "real" jazz school might claim that an instrumentation of two tenors, even though abetted by Brad Gowns' slide trombone and Hackett's horn, wasn't conducive to good music--but, then, the liquor wasn't too good, either...
Back from the wars to help Ohio State defend its Big Ten title came Paul Sar-ringhaus, the 200-lb. passing and plunging ace of '42. With All-America Guard Bill Hackett recovered from a summer auto accident, Ohio State was the Big Ten team to beat...