Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their early 405; Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Drummer Sidney ("Big Sid") Catlett. The only youngster, 25-year-old Arvell Shaw played bass fiddle. When Louis and his All-Stars swung into West End Blues, Confessin' or Rockin' Chair, it was hard for oldtimers to believe that Louis or jazz were ever better...
Willie fought cautiously for three rounds, peppering Champion Sandy Saddler with rapierlike left jabs and occasionally plastering him with solid rights. The champion, a willowy 22-year-old Negro from Manhattan, had a longer reach and harder punch, but he had a hard time hitting shifty Willie. The Hartfordites roared with partisan joy as Willie built up a lead on points. Then the fight became a slugging match as the 126-pounders threw everything they had. Saddler had Pep reeling drunkenly in the tenth round; another good punch would have been the end of Willie. But wily Willie, a shrewd...
Raising money for any liberal arts school in a scientific age is hard enough; raising it for a women's college, as Dean Mclntosh knows, is the limit. As a male educator once put it: "When a man wants to leave money to his college, he leaves it. When a woman wants to leave money to her college, she finds that her late husband has tied up her money in a trust fund so that she can't make a fool of herself...
...more than an altogether creditable play. But it is also a magnificent try, concerned with something so simple, central and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. It reveals the tragedy of a typical American who loses out by trying too hard to win out; it chronicles the propless failure born of the worship of success...
...Young (33), Yale-educated Bill Block inherited the paper from his father, the late Paul Block, in 1941.* He has been trying to cut its ties to the Republican Party and make it an "independent" paper ever since. Bernhard is a calm, competent veteran who came up the hard...