Word: jitterbug
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...their last two league encounters, the Quakers will start Tony Mischo and Chuck Diven at the forwards, Swede Gustafson at center, and Captain Pace Brickley and Gerry Sneeders in the backcourt. Harvard's starters are slated to be Charley Lutz, Fred Heckel, Homer Peabody, Capt. Luplen and Sam (jitterbug) White...
Another: while jazz comes to the jitterbug hot off the griddle, spirituals are dished out to concertgoers like musical cold meat. By the time they reach the concert hall most spirituals have been written down on paper, dressed up like hymn tunes, adorned with fancy piano accompaniments, "interpreted" according to the best rules of high-brow music. But in the whitewashed rural churches of the deep South, their spiritual home, spirituals are as hot as hot jazz, and often sound like...
...thank God we are living in a country as free as this," he said. Speaking of the "jitterbug consciousness" of the country, he declared that he would rather have people "hailing a band leader than heiling a band leader...
...young Margaret Kiniry of East Cambridge became over-excited with swing and had to be taken to the Cambridge City Hospital for treatment for exhaustion and hysterics. Last night the accident ward of the hospital seemed proud to have their first "jitterbug" case on the records and reported that Miss Kintry had been well cared...
Five years ago, before the cry of the jitterbug was heard in the land, a boyish, exuberant Frenchman was busy filling a medieval French castle with hot phonograph records by U.S. jazz players. The Frenchman, Hugues Panassié, had never seen a U.S. jazz orchestra in the flesh. But what he heard on records convinced him: 1) that jazz was a very important type of music, 2) that the difference between good and bad jazz was worth serious critical consideration, 3) that this difference depended not on how jazz was written but on how it was played. To drive...