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...borrowing was on Climax!, whose One Night Stand was a derivative howl from the hot jazz nights of the 1930s. Obeying the Musician's Law in dramatic writing (as immutable as the Newsman's Law, which requires a press card in every hat), the story was, of course, a tearjerker: a talented jazz pianist discovers that he has tuberculosis but wants to die beating out his rhythms in cellar joints instead of getting cured in a nice, clean sanatorium. The novelty lay in the fact that Bob Crosby and his Bobcats not only played their instruments but also...
...British industry, was increased a surprising 18% (about $1.60 a ton) by Britain's National Coal Board last week. The increase was overdue (in three of the past four years, the nationalized coal tipples have run at a loss), but when it came, Britons set up a howl. "We are frankly staggered," complained the head of the Federation of British Industries (Britain's equivalent of the N.A.M.). Said a Tory M.P., pointing the accusing finger at Tory Minister of Fuel Geoffrey Lloyd: "You will finish up by bankrupting the country...
...deplorably inadequate. Jazz-loving Socialite Louis L. Lorillard promptly paid $22,500 for Belcourt, the enormous, run-down pile of the late O.H.P. Belmont, and announced that this was where things would jump during the festival's three days. At this the neighbors set up a well-modulated howl and complained to the city fathers. Eventual compromise: jam sessions in the city-owned ballfield, Freebody Park (seating 11,800), lectures by hipsters ("Jazz from the Inside Looking Out") and social scientists ("Jazz from the Outside Looking In") to be held during two afternoons at Belcourt...
...Rare (The Three Haircuts; Victor). Funnyman Sid Caesar's answer to the inanities of rock 'n' roll records, disk-jockey lingo, and the hyped-up state of pop music in general. With a screaming, honking, socking background, the Haircuts mimic the Crew-Cuts with their howl: "Yew are sooo rare to me! So very rare to me! So if I'm rare to yew, won't yew be rare...
...preseason windjamming, the Brooklyn "Bums" were headed for nothing but trouble. All through spring training, the press sniped at Manager "Smokey" Alston with ill-mannered regularity. When Jackie Robinson had a beef about how seldom he was playing, he got columns of space in which to howl. When Catcher Roy Campanella had a complaint about his spot in the batting order (No. 8), his words were rushed into type. Dodger President Walter O'Malley wondered out loud if a squabbling ball club might not be a healthy one. Nobody seemed to be listening...