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...Cole Trio left the air there is a swing program that doesn't feature a big band. It's devoted to a 19-year old girl named Betty Rand, who sings and plays a fine piano. What is really amazing is that in spite of all the devotees of Hazel Scott, Teddy Wilson, and Frankie Carle, here is actually someone who takes after Fats Waller. Betty hasn't got Waller's power or precision, nor has she any original ideas as yet, but I will gladly swap an hour of Hazel's doodlings for a minute of Betty's barrelhouse...
This remark accurately summarized both Admiral King's reputation in the prewar Navy and the principal reason for his commanding the wartime Navy. Few men in peace or war have known "Rey" King well enough to find the warm self behind his hard, hazel eyes. Well does he know that others in the Navy hold him to be a brutal and forthright man, savage in his judgments and merciless in his expression of them, uncompromising and often extreme in his demands upon his subordinates, a man who can be as forbidding in family crises...
...grimaces and irrepressible feet may yet take Negro Pianist Dorothy Donegan places where her ten amazing fingers would not get her so fast. Wrote Down Beat, the blase semimonthly gospel of some 47,000 U.S. jazz fans: "She is, to us, the ideal in piano stylings. . . . We beckon to Hazel Scott to learn how the classics are swung. We invite Bob Zurke, Jess Stacy, Joe Sullivan, Billy Kyle, all of them, to see phenomenal piano work...
Temporary officers chosen by the group included Adam Yarmolinsky '43, chairman of the War Service Committee, as chairman, and Miss Hazel Brown, of Jackson, as secretary...
...Flynn Problem. One thing Edward Joseph Flynn, of The Bronx, can do: hold The Bronx fast as the great Democratic fortress. The Bronx is his own, his native land, where the pewter-haired, craggy-faced, hazel-eyed Irishman is master of nearly all he surveys from his ninth-floor terrace apartment...