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...baroque" style, which to organists means the simpler, purer style of Bach's day. In his playing, Biggs rarely pulls all the stops. But despite his musical austerity, he can unbend. At an organists' convention he helped organize a few years ago, high points were a jam session of four organs playing...
...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...