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...reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles -no automobiles at all." But though postwar motorists were gradually becoming horn-blowing neurotics with tendencies toward drinking, cat-kicking and wife-beating, there were few who did not believe that the traffic evil would soon be corrected. This enormous delusion has been a part of U.S. folklore since the day of the linen duster, driving goggles and the high tonneau...
...Hear the Melody (Benny Goodman; Columbia LP). Goodman's incisive clarinet, with suave support from a string-and-horn ensemble, in such standbys as Lover, Come Back to Me, Embraceable You, Moonglow...
...precisely this too-early maturity in ... manners, customs, habits and dress in Americans which makes them reach such an early, uninteresting and uniform middle age. What could be lovelier than an American girl at 19 or 20 . . .? What more dreadful than the American woman of 40 with her horn-rimmed spectacles, her leathery skin, her strident voice, her rushing about to lectures and committees, her general air of running the country and . . . culture? . . . Why is ... America the most uncultivated of all the great nations? The answer is surely because culture is the job of women, while the serious business...
...Home"). At 16 he formed his own Original Memphis Five, soon found himself proprietor of one of the most popular little outfits in the U.S. For a while, a youngster named Bix Beiderbecke, who was to die at 28 and become a jazz immortal, carried Phil's horn for him, listening and learning. Between 1917 and 1925 the Memphis Five made 3,011 records...
...That's A Plenty, Milneburg Joys, High Society, Tin Roof Blues. For the departed jazzmen whose music he is reviving, he has a special thought: "I keep thinking of that good band up there with Gabriel. Of course Gabriel's the greatest-Bix is probably playing second horn up there-it must be a wonderful band...