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Boston's debt to Frankie Newton is tremendous. When his seven piece band moved into the Savoy last January, local jazz had been nonexistent for over five years. A jam band like Frankie's was a big risk for the Savoy, as their clientele was used to small jump bands, whose only virtue lay in six arrangements cribbed from Basic. If Newton's boys started the evening with any arrangements in their rack, there wasn't a sheet of paper in sight by ten. Fortunately the band went over tremendously. Weeks became months. The Savoy jammed and was jammed, nightly...
Thus Frankie started the present era of jazz in Boston, the greatest in Hub history. There've been regular engagements of some of the greatest living jazzmen, and first one, then two jam sessions simultaneously. Unbelievable in this day, because it happened in Boston, and all the more unbelievable because it happened when jazz is supposedly on its last legs...
Atop this, the U.S. is using South American airlines more than ever. Most of this new flying is war business. Thus for months all planes headed from Miami and Brownsville to the Canal Zone have been so jam-packed with U.S. diplomats, soldiers, construction workers and South American priority traffic that many plain citizens and tons of cargo have been left behind. In Peru the natives gripe at the coolness of some U.S. airmen, get peeved because U.S. operators do not dish out free rides as the Nazis did, get mad when families of Latin American officials are pushed...
...London Philharmonic, now touring the provinces on a cooperative basis, gives many of its concerts in music halls (for years the British home of vaudeville), playing popular programs nightly to jam-packed audiences. Response is greatest in the most heavily blitzed towns...
...grease-black hands in horror. The more daring tried it on their own cars, predicted that the motors would soon shake themselves to pieces; the transmission and rear end would eventually break down from the unnatural pulsation of the drive shaft; the pumping action of the unused pistons would jam the dead cylinders with incompressible oil. Instead of being a minor repair job, Sun's plan, they thought, would mean factory rebuilding-taking out the unused pistons and connecting rods, putting in new manifolds. The mildest criticism was that, using the Sun system, it is impossible to go slower...