Word: jitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Werner Janssen formed his symphony last year, critics praised its smooth string playing (its motto: "Every man a Heifetz"), the variety of its music. But when the Janssen Symphony wangled eight dates on California's Standard Symphony Hour, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began to jitter. The Philharmonic, founded in 1919 by Copperman William Andrews Clark Jr., and nurtured until his death in 1934 by about $3,000,000 of his money, now depends on the public for support (deficit: $100,000 or more a year). The Philharmonic was afraid that Los Angeles could not support two symphonies...
Three years ago, when Benny Goodman played at Manhattan's Paramount theater, jitterbugs cavorted in the aisles-so wildly that police were summoned. Psychiatrists gravely speculated on what made the bugs jitter. Last week came an answer: they were hired to. Haled into a Manhattan court was Irving ("Schnitz") Davidson, boss of an organization called "The 200 Characters," who could be had to dance in aisles, make a fuss over celebrities arriving in railroad stations, mob people for autographs, carry instruments for orchestra players. Charged with assault on a muscler-in on his trade, Boss "Schnitz...
...with both sides. He tried to scare the Germans by dangling his tin elsewhere, but bit his nails for fear they would just bomb his Liverpool plant. He changed his mind half a dozen times about whether to come to the U. S. When the State Department failed to jitter at his Nazi flirtations, made him no offers, he came anyway...