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...Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and, most notably, Fats Waller. Because of his Victor contract, Waller uses the nom de piano of Maurice, his nine-year-old son. His improvisations and ad lib choruses have much more sound invention than he ordinarily waxes for Victor. Of the four sides of jam and jazz classics, Georgia Grind provides most Waller, most listening...
...multiplied a millionfold. He is just an Englishman. He was born in the country, or in one of the big cities of the Midlands, or in a grey house in a London suburb. The hands that reared him were hard. His food was tepid or cold: butter and bread, jam and strong black tea, mutton and what was left over of the Sunday joint. His boyhood was tough. At school he was caned. He grew to know history in a simple way; he grew to love his King as he loved the mist in the park on a summer...
Outside a small room in the County Court House in downtown Manhattan, a mob of 500 clamored to get in. A fiery, black-haired teacher-unionist, Dr. Bella V. Dodd, rushed about shrieking: "The hearing is packed!" Inside the room, jam-packed with newsmen and eager spectators, the curtain rose last week on a legislative investigation of subversive activities in New York City's public schools...
...faced Town Marshal Joe Peyton found his one-man job a nightmare, couldn't unsnarl the daily traffic jam that tied up the public square. A 300% increase in mail had the post office stumped. Five crews of linemen scrambled and shinnied to make telephone connections. Rushing to finish a much-needed sewage system, WPAsters built street-corner privies which indignant citizens threatened to burn. Sidewalk hawkers with pushcarts turned Charlestown into a Lower East Side. Jam-packed was the town's lone grog shop.-Every night was Saturday night and Saturday night was chaos...
From Granville Hicks to Professor Latourette, from Littauer to Adams, from "The Fall of France" to "The Character of Loki," the billboards and lecture halls are jam-packed...