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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could you tell whether one of those immediate ancestors was a Rev. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous" would come in here) who left his sect and became a Roman Catholic priest and afterwards relapsed, so I have heard. Does TIME know if this...
...There is another element. The concertizing artist must be able to electrify his audience. You have heard orators whose arguments were completely logical but who were not convincing. Something vital was missing. The man who plays before the public must have that something--that some conductors have, of charging with the magnetism of their will not only the audience but the men of the orchestra...
When up in New York's Harlem a short time ago, I wandered into a session at the Moonglow on 145th Street (highly recommended!) which had some of the best orchestra piano I had heard in a long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play...
When I last heard Fats, he had three of the greatest men in the business playing for him in the persons of Eugene Cedric (tenor sax), Herman Autry (trumpet), and Albert Casey (guitar). Since then, Casey has joined Teddy Wilson's band, but all else remains as good...
...moments of panic, when the half ended with the score 7-6 over Hampden-Sydney. Although the second half revealed a different story in the form of four touchdowns, the Big Green did not show conclusive proof that it'll dominate Ivy league Circles this fall.... And who ever heard of the Hampden-Sydney football team...