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Jitterbugs are not crazy, wrote Animal Lover Ellsworth Jaeger in Nature Magazine last week. They merely carry on ancient dance patterns which lower animals developed eons before man appeared on the earth. Jive-Justifier Jaeger described jitterbug patterns of 16 animals, ranging all the way from "thread legged bugs" to caribou. Samples...
...Contrasts," his theme song and the best record Jimmy Dorsay has made in some time. This is a really unusual record, beautifully recorded with James playing superb six... "Beautiful Dreamer"-more Stephen Foster by Cana Loma, and well done... "No Name Jive," by Charlie Barnet, shows once again how few ideas are in this band, how noisy ... while on the contrary we elect Woody Horman to the post of "Power House King" for his "Get Your Boots Laced Poppa." If you like tremendous drive-here it is-two full sides...
Masterminds of the New Friends are Cellist Alan Shulman, who does the arrangements and has written two original pieces for the group (High Voltage, Mood in Question), and his brother Sylvan, a violinist who is probably the first to jive on wax with a $15,000 Stradivarius (borrowed). Known around NBC as "Toscanini's hep cats," the New Friends do not know how "The Old Man" likes their recordings, which were sent to him last Christmas. Toscanini made no comment, but his cats suspect that he does not mind...
...democracy. When those things go, where is America? But I have been trying to uplift the present stuff and even my enemies, of whom I have legion, will admit that my attempt has been gallant. I am, of course, well-known in all circles where the righteous jumpin' Jive is purveyed and I am confident that my influence is a steadying and inspiring...
Harlem. To nightlifers, Harlem, the Negro metropolis, is a glittering island of creepjoints, honky-tonks, jive halls. But for its 245,000 inhabitants, jammed into some 230 narrow city blocks, Harlem is a virtual pesthole. The t.b. mortality rate in Harlem is ten times higher than the rate in more prosperous sections of New York City. It is not uncommon for Harlem doctors to be stricken. Confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium at present is brilliant, contentious Skull Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, former surgical director of Harlem Hospital, considered by many the outstanding Negro physician...