Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most of his big-time colleagues, Doc Parshall operates a public training stable, takes on horses at $100 a month (this year he has 28). Unlike jockeys in Thoroughbred racing, Standardbred drivers have their own racing colors. Doc Parshall's red-white-&-blue silks were handed down to...
Since scholarly Frenchman Hugues Panassié (Le Jazz Hot) went seeking the kingdom of swing in the U. S. (1938), other foreign pilgrims have followed him. Latest is a diminutive, 21-year-old Javanese named Harry Lim, editor in chief of the Batavia, Dutch East Indies magazine Swing (Officieel Orgaan...
In Washington, D. C. sleuthing Publisher Cooke found his first hot trail. At neat Negro Howard University he met a bent, white-haired mathematics professor, Dr. Kelly Miller, who told him that Bland had been survived by two sisters. One of them, a seamstress, thought she remembered where Bland had...
The author of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was a native of Flushing, L. I. The son of one of the first U. S. Negro college graduates (Oberlin '45), Bland himself attended Washington's Howard University. Handsome and honey-voiced, he could not stay away from music...
Three years ago, handsome, curly-haired Fred McClung, 29-year-old pastor of the Highland Park Church of Christ at Fort Worth, Texas, encountered a sore temptation. During the Fort Worth "Frontier Centennial" he met smart little Showman Billy Rose, who told him he would do well in the movies...