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...Eddie Heywood was on the crest of a wave when the records in this album were cut. A strangely haunting, morbidly phrased rendition of "Begin the Beguine" issued the year before, had established his reputation, and set the pattern for his style. He had somehow managed to combine complicated technique and warm melodic feeling effectively. Although now, after three years, the style seems to have overwhelmed the man and betrayed all artistic effect by its over-dominance, at the time Heywood was a balanced artist with something to say that hadn't been said before...
...futuristic, can be detected. Tenor saxophonist Don Byas, and violinist-trumpeter Roy Nance, vie with each other to see who can try the most technical innovations in sixteen minutes. Nance even drags in a little pizzicato on one of his opening violin choruses. Through it all, however, snatches of Heywood may be heard which, though a bit incongruous in such company are responsible for whatever merit there is in this half...
Last month Tom Stokes's conscience drove him to a remarkable decision: he insisted that his column be dropped by the Scripps-Howard chain, which started to syndicate him two years ago. Like Westbrook Pegler and the late Heywood Broun, Stokes had-or thought he had-an acute case of Scripps-Howard trouble...
...Algonquin became a Manhattan institution, and gave birth to other institutions. Most famed offspring: the Round Table, "a crowd of unusually agreeable folk": Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, "F.P.A.", Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Heywood Broun. In the twenties, they lunched together in the Oak Room. But when they died or drifted away, there were always younger wits to dine in the Oak Room and younger actors to sleep where John Barrymore had slept. Despite occasional rough going, the Algonquin usually earned a profit (last year...
Undergraduates who deem themselves budding Heywood Brouns, Margaret Bourke-Whites, or just plain hack writers will have their first opportunity of the summer term to achieve their goals Friday night, when the Crimson opens competitions for its news, editorial, business, and photographic boards...