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...have time enough to hear Davison's band at the Ken, you can judge for yourself next Wednesday night at Winthrop House, or over the Crimson Network. A jam session will be held, featuring instrumentalists around the College. Bill Davison has graciously consented to bring part of his band and play for the occasion...
...World War I, Dr. Weizmann's skill got Britain out of a worse jam than the U.S. rubber shortage. Britain was desperate for acetone, needed to make explosives. It had to be distilled from wood, and there were hardly enough trees in the world to supply the demand. Dr. Weizmann found a way to make synthetic acetone, solved the shortage overnight, in return won the British promise of a homeland for Jews in Palestine...
...like Red Allen, Pete Brown, and Sidney Bechet, who have been setting the Ken a-rocking in the past three months, there will be a pussyfoot outfit under Nick Jerrit. Not that the band hasn't possibilities, but playing alongside J. C. Higginbotham and Pete Brown in yesterday's jam session, Jerrit's bunch was dismally uninteresting. There evidently won't be an end to the Sunday sessions, which is heartening. I don't think they'll be as exciting as previously, if for the simple reason that you can't build a whole afternoon's entertainment around one guest...
Much more hopeful are the prospects at the Savoy. For one thing, Sabby Lewis' band is easily the best jazz music in Boston. For another, when the Savoy moves, the band and the policy, including Sunday jam sessions, will still be the same. The big question is, will the Savoy atmosphere be the same? It makes a lot of difference where jazz is concerned...
Work to be Done. Donald Nelson hoped his realignment would stick. Some problems were left on the stove to simmer. One is a serious transportation jam, but he could do little with it. For Transportation Chief Joe Eastman has no status on WPB, must work round about. Another is Harold Ickes' separate jurisdiction over petroleum. Authority over electric power rests with six different Federal agencies. Plant expansion has to be checked again, lest there be more factories than materials to feed them...