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...Biggest animal art show last week was put on by the dignified, Victorian-upholstered Pierpont Morgan Library, which elbows Manhattan's midtown skyscrapers like a Brewster barouche in a traffic jam of taxis. Said a high-nosed Morgan Library attendant: "I suppose it's a very good idea, at a time when human beings are acting so savagely, to show records of the behavior of animals." From its richly laden shelves, librarians had taken down the Morgan Library's best 9th to 19th-Century bestiaries, travel books, mythologies, collected fables, lives of animal-loving saints, set their...
Jazz-the real McCoy-has been defined as "collective improvisation." The Pentecostal gift of tongues is most likely to descend on jazz musicians when they are not hampered by printed notes. Improvisatory rituals, or jam sessions, are seldom open to the public. They take place in recording studios, or in musicians' homes. In Chicago, where U. S. jazz flowered in its second* great period, there used to be great jam sessions in hotspots after closing time. Then Union Boss Jimmy Petrillo, unable to see why a musician should play overtime for nothing, put his heavy foot down. In Manhattan...
Last week another jam project was under way near New York City, in Toto's Green Haven Inn, founded in Mamaroneck by the late famed circus clown. Mixed aplenty, Sunday-afternoon sessions were open to any expert jazzman. Four Sundays of it had built a typical jazz following, equal parts suburban jitterbugs and reverential male grownups. In every audience there was at least one know-it-all who bothered the players with technical questions, and one high-school editor who inquired: "Do you think real jazz is on the decline?", whereupon everyone grabbed for his drink...
...going to note against a rocking chair and jam...
Along the marble walls of vast, echoing St. Peter's, Rome, Vatican engineers last week strung the wires for 40 loudspeakers, so that the 40,000 Catholic faithful who jam the Pope's basilica on high festivals may hear his voice. Pius XII will first use the new system on Nov. 24, when he will say a special Mass for peace, to be followed by a world-wide broadcast...