Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three full-size bands that still remember how to play with true jazz feeling, and the Lionel Hampton Quartet, in four long selections (including a razzle-dazzle chase chorus between Hampton's vibraharp and Oscar Peterson's piano). Columbia reels off a big jam session that includes a dizzying 63 choruses of The Huckle-Buck, played by Trumpeter Buck Clayton & Co. Pacific Jazz features the original inventions of the Russ Freeman Trio. Discovery has the bleep-bloop piano playing of Beryl Booker with her trio. Capitol includes Lennie Tristano and his fantastic a-rhythmical meanderings...
Bill is in three kinds of jam: 1) as an amateur bookmaker out for some ready cash, he has welshed on a ?3,000 daily-double payoff, and the man he owes is hot on his trail; 2) he can only honor the debt by selling his moldering ancestral mansion, Towcester Abbey, to an American millionairess who has qualms about its dampness; 3) his fiancee Jill misinterprets his 2 a.m. exit from the millionairess' room and promptly returns his ring. Trusty Jeeves settles these and a dozen other complications with his customary aplomb. Bill and Jill are put back...
More practical would be a modification of this year's procedure, eliminating the delays and jam-ups. Students would come into the H.A.A. in the morning of their class' assigned day, fill out an order for tickets with their money, and leave. In the three hours from 9:00 a.m. to noon, there should be little crowding of the office since the whole process would be brief and would require no line. In the afternoon, the staff could fill the orders at random with no special preference for the early comer. The next morning, senior would pick up their tickets...
Snagless Slider. A jamproof slide fastener, called "Conmatic." was brought out by Conmar Products Corp. Other jam-proof fasteners on the market have hinged or removable sliders. Conmar, taking a preventive approach, designed a slider with ridges and grooves that either brush away obstructions or, if that fails, stop the slider in its tracks before it can catch...
...uncertainty is understandable in a picture cuffed off as casually as Beat the Devil was. The marvel is that there is not more uncertainty. And yet, actually, the bluffing and the weasels and the downright mistakes are what give this picture, as they give a jam session, its personal style. What one comes to hear is not the clinkers but those crazy riffs, of which Beat the Devil has some fine ones...