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Space will not permit of dilation on the many all-night, private jam sessions I have attended, listening to the all-star jamming of such gates as Chu Berry, Louis Armstrong, Leon Roppolo, and Jimmy Harrisson. But I have not listened to their improvising purely with my emotions, for me "toujours I'approche intellectuelle au sujet" (always the intellectual approach for any subject). For instance, I am ravished by the celestial ninths which J. C. Higginbotham (Higgy to his friends, among whom I am proud to say I am numbered) plays on that good old slush-pump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

SAVAGE CIVILIZATION-Tom Harrisson-Knopf ($4). Engrossing, pro-native history of the New Hebrides islanders; its thesis: that savages can be understood by whites. Though he lived with the natives, Author Harrisson confines his own adventures to his narrative's final seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 13, 1937 | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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